In order to improve environmental sustainability of tomato cultivation and the quality harvested fruits, we tested (a) digestate from anaerobic fermentation buffalo slurries as partial replacing NP fertilizers (b) biodegradable mulching nutrients water availability for crop control weeds. 2017–2018, a private farm Campania region hosted trial with four treatments deriving combination two experi...

Plant microbiomes are responsible for the growth, health, nutrition, and resistance to biotic abiotic stress. Moreover, some plant microbiome members, especially Enterobacteriaceae family, can act as human pathogens. In recent years, metagenomic analysis of amplified 16S rRNA gene sequenced on Illumina second generation sequencers became most widely used method bacterial studies. The r RNA bact...

The antioxygenic activity of Solanum nigrum L. leaves and its various solvent extracts were evaluated using sunflower oil model system. Leaf powder and its methanol/water (80:20) soluble fraction showed strong antioxygenic activity in refined sunflower oil. On the other hand, ethyl acetate fraction exhibited marginal antioxygenic activity, whereas the water soluble fraction was practically devo...

Population genetics theory predicts that strong selection for rare, beneficial mutations or against frequent, deleterious mutations reduces polymorphism at linked neutral (or weakly selected) sites. The reduction of genetic variation is expected to be more severe when recombination rates are lower. In outbreeding species, low recombination rates are usually confined to certain chromosomal regio...

Plant morphological changes mediated by growth conditions are linked to changes in host preference of herbivores. Understanding how these morphological changes inßuence herbivore feeding is critical in the interpretationof results of host evaluationof candidateweedbiocontrol agents in quarantine and improvement of the evaluation system. We determined the effect of plant growth conditions on lea...