One of life's decisive innovations was to harness the catalytic power of metals for cellular chemistry. With life's expansion, global atmospheric and biogeochemical cycles underwent dramatic changes. Although initially harmful, they permitted the evolution of multicellularity and the colonization of land. In land plants as primary producers, metal ...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Bitter pit is a disorder affecting the appearance of apples. Susceptibility is genetically controlled by both the cultivar and rootstock, with both environmental and horticultural factors affecting its severity and proportional incidence. Symptoms appear more frequently at the calyx end of the fruit and consist of circular necrotic spots, which tak...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The accumulation of excess manure and the energy costs of the buildings housing the animals are the most important problems that chicken farms have to face nowadays. The combustion of chicken manure to obtain thermal energy for animal holdings has been demonstrated through the research project AVIENERGY, in Spain. To ensure the circularity of the p...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Published in The Biochemical journal
The plant macronutrient phosphorus is a scarce resource and plant-available phosphate is limiting in most soil types. Generally, a gene regulatory module called the phosphate starvation response (PSR) enables efficient phosphate acquisition by roots and translocation to other organs. Plants growing on moderate to nutrient-rich soils need to co-ordi...
Biointrants constitute a promising opportunity to lower mineral input on rapeseed, characterized by high nutrient requirements. As bio-inoculants, phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) could increase the amount of available P in a soil solution. However, the deployment of these bioinoculants in fields is not always successful. Disentangling the fac...
Published in Cannabis and cannabinoid research
Introduction: The use of Cannabis sativa L. in health care requires stringent care for the optimal production of the bioactive compounds. However, plant phenotypes and the content of secondary metabolites, such as phytocannabinoids, are strongly influenced by external factors, such as nutrient availability. It has been shown that phytocannabinoids ...
Redesigning agrosystems to include more ecological regulations can help feed a growing human population, preserve soils for future productivity, limit dependency on synthetic fertilizers, and reduce agriculture contribution to global changes such as eutrophication and warming. However, guidelines for redesigning cropping systems from natural system...
Sea2land: From fishery waste to the food of the future: A new Ecotron experiment to assess the efficiency and the environmental impact of innovative bio-based fertilisers under reference and future meteorological conditions. The SEA2LAND project SEA2LAND project is a 4-year collaborative Innovation Action funded by the EU in the framework of the Ho...
