Enhancing Lettuce () Productivity: Foliar Sprayed Fe-Alg-CaCO MPs as Fertilizers for Aquaponics Cultivation.

Aquaponics is an innovative agricultural method combining aquaculture and hydroponics. However, this balance can lead to the gradual depletion of essential micronutrients, particularly iron. Over time, decreasing iron levels can negatively impact plant health and productivity, making the monitoring and management of iron in aquaponic systems vital.

From kitchen to crop: The efficacy and safety of the microbial consortium treated dishwasher wastewater for the Zero Mile system.

A microbial consortium, based on the functional integration of photosynthetic and heterotrophic microorganisms, is the core of the Zero Mile System. This system is designed for reusing and upcycling household greywaters, a still untapped water resource. The previous challenges of dishwasher wastewater bioremediation demonstrated the capability of an ad hoc consortium (including a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and three heterotrophic bacterial isolates from dishwasher wastewater) to reclaim the wastewater at small/medium scale.

Isolation of biocrust cyanobacteria and evaluation of Cu, Pb, and Zn immobilisation potential for soil restoration and sustainable agriculture.

Soil contamination by heavy metals represents an important environmental and public health problem of global concern. Biocrust-forming cyanobacteria offer promise for heavy metal immobilisation in contaminated soils due to their unique characteristics, including their ability to grow in contaminated soils and produce exopolysaccharides (EPS). However, limited research has analysed the representativeness of cyanobacteria in metal-contaminated soils.

Microparticles from dental calculus disclose paleoenvironmental and palaeoecological records.

Plants have always represented a key element in landscape delineation. Indeed, plant diversity, whose distribution is influenced by geographic/climatic variability, has affected both environmental and human ecology. The present contribution represents a multi-proxy study focused on the detection of starch, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs in ancient dental calculus collected from pre-historical individuals buried at La Sassa and Pila archaeological sites (Central Italy).

Sustainability in Aquaponics: Industrial Spirulina Waste as a Biofertilizer for L. Plants.

Aquaponics represents an alternative to traditional soil cultivation. To solve the problem of nutrient depletion that occurs in this biotechnological system, the application of a spirulina-based biofertilizer was assessed. The microalgal waste used in this study came from industrial processing.

Pollen variability in Quercus L. species and relative systematic implications.

This study aims to address one of the challenges related to the complexity of the Quercus L. genus, that is the identification of structural elements favouring the systematic identification of the oak pollen. Thus, in this contribution, we explored the variation of morphometric and chemical parameters in pollen samples collected from 47 different Quercus species and hybrids.

Influence of environmental conditions on the production of nutraceuticals in Italian edible plant landraces.

Autochthonous plant varieties, also referred to as landraces, represent an important genetic resource, being well-adapted to the environment in which they have been selected. Landraces usually show profiles rich in nutraceuticals, making them an effective and valuable alternative to commercial agri-products, as well as potential candidates for crop improvement programs. Basilicata region is recognized as an Italian hotspot for agrobiodiversity, due to its complex orography.

Phytochemical and biological investigations on the pollen from industrial hemp male inflorescences.

Cannabis sativa L. belongs to the Cannabaceae family and includes annual, robust, fast-growing and generally dioecious plants. Industrial hemp, and particularly the inflorescences, has been recently recognized as important source of bioactive extracts with antioxidant and antimicrobial effects.

Exploiting the Potential in Water Cleanup from Metals and Nutrients of sp. and .

Increasing levels of freshwater contaminants, mainly due to anthropogenic activities, have resulted in a great deal of interest in finding new eco-friendly, cost-effective and efficient methods for remediating polluted waters. The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility of using a green microalga sp., a cyanobacterium sp.

Phytochemicals and quality level of food plants grown in an aquaponics system.

Background: Beyond nutrition, fruits and vegetables can be considered as natural sources of bioactive molecules, for which beneficial effects on human health are widely recognised. To improve food quality, soilless growing systems could represent a good strategy for promoting a sustainable food production chain, although the nutritional and nutraceutical properties of their products should be investigated in depth. The main quality traits and the volatile and non-volatile secondary metabolites of Solanum lycopersicum L.

Induction of Antioxidant Metabolites in Callus by Abiotic Stresses.

has recently been subjected to numerous scientific studies pursuing its biological properties. However, biotechnological approaches promoting the synthesis of pharmacological compounds in this species are still scarce, despite the fact that moringa metabolites have shown significant nutraceutical effects. For this reason, in vitro cultures of moringa callus, obtained from leaf explantation, were subjected to various abiotic stresses such as temperature, salicylic acid, and NaCl, to identify the best growth conditions for the production of high levels of antioxidant molecules.

Antineoplastic activity of strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa Duch.) crude extracts on B16-F10 melanoma cells.

The antiproliferative and differentiation potential of anthocyanin-rich strawberry fruit crude extracts (SE) were investigated on B16-F10 murine melanoma cells. Treatment of melanoma cells with SE produced a remarkable reduction of cell proliferation, paralleled with both the lowering of the intracellular levels of polyamine, and the enhancement of tissue transglutaminase (TG2, EC 2.3.

Polyamine concentration, transglutaminase activity and changes in protein synthesis during cryopreservation of shoot tips of apple variety Annurca.

Changes in metabolism and protein expression were analysed during cryopreservation of the ancient apple variety Annurca. Our experiments concerned transglutaminase activity, polyamine levels and protein expression associated with shoot tip dehydration. Cryopreserved shoot tips displayed 72% regrowth after treatment in liquid medium with 0.

Loading silica with metals (palladium or platinum) under mild conditions by using well-defined molecular precursors.

The loading of pre-treated amorphous silica with platinum or palladium was carried out by using the molecular precursors Pt2(micro-Cl)2Cl2(CO)2, or Pd2(micro-Cl)2Cl2(CO)2, respectively, which contain the required amount of coordinated CO to carry out the formation of the metal particles upon contact with moisture. The reactivity of the well-soluble mononuclear platinum complex cis-PtCl2(CO)2 with stoichiometric amounts of water was investigated either under N2 or CO. The metal nanoparticles produced on the silica matrix have been characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).