Publications by authors named "Marco Di Santo"
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- Interspecific transmission of pathogens among wild bees is primarily influenced by honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies, which act as reservoirs for these pathogens, leading to significant concerns for wild bee populations in Italy due to limited data availability.
- A study sampled 3,372 bees across 11 Italian regions, finding that 68.4% were infected with at least one pathogen, with DWV, BQCV, N. ceranae, and CBPV being the most common.
- The research identified that factors such as meteorological conditions and agricultural practices have a larger impact on pathogen spread than apiary density, highlighting the need for conservation efforts to protect wild bee health and populations.
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- Celery is a biennial herb from the Apiaceae family, primarily grown in humid environments across the Mediterranean, Europe, and Asia, yet there is limited research on its various cultivars.
- The study focuses on four Italian celery types (two common and two black), aiming to determine if FT-IR spectroscopy combined with chemometric methods can effectively differentiate between these ecotypes.
- Results showed that using the SPORT classifier achieved a 90% classification accuracy on a test set of 100 samples, demonstrating the potential of this method for identifying celery types based on their unique characteristics.
Dried and ground red pepper is a spice used as seasoning in various traditional dishes all over the world; nevertheless, the pedoclimatic conditions of the diverse cultivation areas provide different chemical characteristics, and, consequently, diverse organoleptic properties to this product. In the present study, the volatile profiles of 96 samples of two different ground bell peppers harvested in diverse Italian geographical areas, Altino (Abruzzo) and Senise (Lucania), and a commercial sweet paprika, have been studied by means of headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The investigation of their volatile profile has led to the identification of 59 analytes.
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