Publications by authors named "Sara Sestili"
Seedlings of durum wheat and lentil were utilized to investigate the efficiency of magnetic water on growth and metabolic epicotyl profile. Tap water was passed through a magnetic device with a flow rate of max. 12900 - 13200 Gauss (G).
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- The text discusses the opportunities and challenges in agriculture, focusing on the increasing demand for sustainable food production, using a large collection of tomato varieties for research on important agricultural traits.
- A study involving 244 tomato accessions grown organically revealed significant phenotypic diversity and demonstrated that certain traits, like fruit weight, have high heritability, indicating strong genetic control.
- Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified 59 loci associated with specific flower and fruit traits, highlighting key genes linked to fruit characteristics and suggesting areas for future breeding efforts.
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- ddRAD-seq was used to analyze the genomic diversity among 288 diverse tomato accessions, focusing on long shelf life (LSL) 'da serbo' varieties primarily from Italy and Spain.
- The study identified 32,799 high-quality SNPs, revealing six genetic subgroups that show variations based on the type and geographical origin of the accessions.
- The research highlighted several alleles linked to stress tolerance and fruit maturation, suggesting that 'da serbo' germplasm may be a valuable resource for breeding resilient tomato varieties.
Background: Solanum torvum Sw is worldwide employed as rootstock for eggplant cultivation because of its vigour and resistance/tolerance to the most serious soil-borne diseases as bacterial, fungal wilts and root-knot nematodes. The little information on Solanum torvum (hereafter Torvum) resistance mechanisms, is mostly attributable to the lack of genomic tools (e.g.
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