In the unglaciated parts of Southwestern Wisconsin, buried Terra Rossas are commonly found. These clayey, red soils are buried by loess and mainly found on ridges underlain by limestone. They have been eroded during periglacial climates. The red clay has implications for groundwater recharge as well as lateral flow through the landscape. This project focusses on a 50 km2 watershed where some 40...

The adjacent Italian administrative regions of Emilia-Romagna, Toscana, Umbria and Marcheconstitute what is frequently referred to as la zona rossa, or “the red zone”. This naming of thenorth-central area of the Italian peninsula stems from the historically high levels of support thatthe Italian Communist Party (PCI) enjoyed for much of the post-World War two period.Notwithstand...

-Terra rossa samples were taken from the B horizons of soil profiles and from cracks within limestone in Italy. The average annual temperature (AAT) of the sites ranged from 8.4 to 20.3~ and the average annual precipitation (AAP) from 511 to 3113 mm, with either a 5-6 month water deficit or a large water surplus. Goethite and hematite were identified in all the samples. Under a moist (> 1700 mm...

Terra rossa is a reddish clay soil which often present on the surface of limestone in regions with Mediterranean-type climate. Its genesis controversial subject terms origin parent material, from residuum underlying (carbonate/dolomite) bedrock absence/presence an external silicate contribution (e.g., aeolian dust). Within this context main goal work was understanding geochemical processes lead...

Fleshy fruits develop from an unripe organ that needs to be protected from damage to a ripe organ that attracts frugivores for seed dispersal through production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Thus, different responses to wounding damage are predicted. The aim of this study was to discover whether wound-induced changes in the transcriptome and VOC production alter as tomato transitions fr...