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The supply chain of sweet chestnuts in South Tyrol
(2014)Italy is the largest producer of chestnuts in Europe and its most advanced and chestnut-oriented regions are Tuscany, Calabria, Campania and Piedmont. This study, however, focuses on the chestnut supply chain in South Tyrol ... -
Establishment, persistence and effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculants in the field revealed using molecular genetic tracing and measurement of yield components
(WILEY, 2012)Inoculation of crop plants by non-native strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi as bio-enhancers is promoted without clear evidence for symbiotic effectiveness and fungal persistence. To address such gaps, the forage ... -
Taxon-specific PCR primers to detect two inconspicuous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from temperate agricultural grassland
(SPRINGER, 2007)Taxon-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers enable detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF, Glomeromycota) in plant roots where the fungi lack discriminative morphological and biochemical characters. We ... -
Green manure addition to soil increases grain zinc concentration in bread wheat
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2014)Zinc (Zn) deficiency is a major problem for many people living on wheat-based diets. Here, we explored whether addition of green manure of red clover and sunflower to a calcareous soil or inoculating a non-indigenous ... -
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit from 7 years of free air CO2 enrichment in well-fertilized grass and legume monocultures
(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, 2004)Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide partial pressure (pCO(2)) and nitrogen (N) deposition are important components of global environmental change. In the Swiss free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment, the effect ... -
Comparing arbuscular mycorrhizal communities of individual plants in a grassland biodiversity experiment
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010)Plants differ greatly in the soil organisms colonizing their roots. However, how soil organism assemblages of individual plant roots can be influenced by plant community properties remains poorly understood.We determined ... -
Forage rotations conserve diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil fertility
(2020)In the Mediterranean, long-term impact of typical land uses on soil fertility have not been quantified yet on replicated mixed crop-livestock farms and considering the variability of soil texture. Here, we report the ... -
Influence of elastase on alanine-rich peptide hydrogels
(2014)The self-assembly of the alanine-rich amphiphilic peptides Lys(Ala) 6Lys (KA6K) and Lys(Ala)6Glu (KA6E) with homotelechelic or heterotelechelic charged termini respectively has been investigated in aqueous solution. These ... -
Encapsulation of oils recovered from brewer’s spent grain by particles from gas saturated solutions technique
(2020)The work aimed to encapsulate oils recovered from brewer’s spent grain by particles from gas saturated solutions technique using supercritical carbon dioxide as solvent and polyethylene glycol as wall material. The process ... -
Lactic acid fermentation enriches the profile of biogenic fatty acid derivatives of Avocado fruit (Persea americana Mill.)
(2020)This study investigated the capability of selected autochthonous lactic acid bacteria to enrich the portfolio of bioactive compounds of avocado fruit (Persea americana Mill.), with the perspective of producing dietary ... -
Thermodynamics of hydrothermal carbonization: Assessment of the heat release profile and process enthalpy change
(2020)A reliable and reproducible procedure for the determination of the heat release rate profile and for the enthalpy change of the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) process is applied using High Pressure Differential ... -
Extreme reference years for building energy performance simulation
(2020)The analysis of building energy performance resilience requires also the assessment of energy needs under untypical boundary conditions. This implies the adoption of reference years remarkably warmer or colder than typical ... -
Iron fertilization to enhance tolerance mechanisms to copper toxicity of ryegrass plants used as cover crop in vineyards
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is a plant species that can express mechanisms of tolerance to copper (Cu) toxicity. Therefore, the agronomical approach of intercropping system with ryegrass may represent a promising tool to ... -
Multilocus genotyping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and marker suitability for population genetics
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Effect of heavy metal contaminated shooting range soils on mycorrhizal colonization of roots and metal uptake by leek
(KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, 2002)We grew leek (Allium porrum) in soils of two shooting ranges heavily contaminated with heavy metals in the towns of Zuchwil and Oberuzwil in Switzerland as a bioassay to test the activity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) ... -
Nondestructive estimates of leaf area in white clover using predictive formulae: The contribution of genotype identity to trifoliate leaf area
(CROP SCIENCE SOC AMER, 2005)Studies on plant development in ecology and agriculture typically assess the formation of leaf area. Plants studied here were clonal propagates of nine genets of Trifolium repens cv. Milkanova (white clover), a common ... -
Molecular trait indicators: moving beyond phylogeny in arbuscular mycorrhizal ecology
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010)Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form symbiotic associations with the roots of most plants, thereby mediating nutrient and carbon fluxes, plant performance, and ecosystem dynamics. Although considerable effort has been ... -
Saprobic microfungi under Lolium perenne and Trifolium repens at different fertilization intensities and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration
(WILEY, 2005)Anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration and the connected deposition of organic matter into the soil influence the occurrence of decomposers who regulate carbon release back into the atmosphere. The effects ... -
Genetic diversity and host plant preferences revealed by simple sequence repeat and mitochondrial markers in a population of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices
(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2008)Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important symbionts of plants that improve plant nutrient acquisition and promote plant diversity. Although within-species genetic differences among AMF have been shown to differentially ... -
Microbial secondary succession in a chronosequence of chalk grasslands
(NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2010)Although secondary succession has been studied extensively, we have little knowledge of the succession of soil-borne microbial communities. In this study, we therefore examined the structures of the microbial communities ...
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