Publications by authors named "L Lanfranco"
Soil is one of the most important reservoirs of antibiotic resistance, global threat that needs to be addressed with the One Health approach. Despite urban parks playing a fundamental role in urban ecosystems, the diffusion, maintenance, and human impact of antibiotic-resistance genes in this substrate are still poorly addressed. To fill in this gap, we adopted a molecular and culturomics approach to study antibiotic resistance in urban parks, accounting for the environmental matrix and the level of urbanization.
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- Enhancing crop productivity is crucial for food security, and biostimulants like zaxinone and its mimics show promise in boosting plant growth and yield.
- Their application was studied to see how they affect soil and rice root microbiota, focusing on bacterial and fungal communities at different growth stages.
- Results indicate that these treatments initially reduced beneficial microbes in the roots but allowed for a recovery in microbial diversity later, highlighting their potential as eco-friendly solutions for agriculture.
Unlabelled: Intestinal microsporidiosis caused by is an opportunistic infection that especially affects solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Management revolves around tapering the immunosuppressive regimen and/or using a specific anti-microsporidia treatment, but only fumagillin has demonstrated efficacy for treatment of this infection. Since fumagillin has been commercially discontinued, nitazoxanide is increasingly being used in this indication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCross-kingdom RNA interference (ckRNAi) is a mechanism of interspecies communication where small RNAs (sRNAs) are transported from one organism to another; these sRNAs silence target genes in trans by loading into host AGO proteins. In this work, we investigated the occurrence of ckRNAi in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis (AMS). We used an in silico prediction analysis to identify a sRNA (Rir2216) from the AM fungus Rhizophagus irregularis and its putative plant gene target, the Medicago truncatula MtWRKY69 transcription factor.
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- The space environment poses various stressors on plant physiology, including both abiotic factors like radiation, altered gravity, and light conditions, as well as biotic interactions with pathogens and beneficial organisms.
- An overview of these stressors reveals how they affect plant growth and development in space.
- Understanding these effects is essential for future space missions and can improve plant breeding and agricultural practices on Earth.