This review provides a description of morpho-anatomical, biochemical and physiological adaptive mechanisms implemented by ornamental plants to cope with salt stress. Ornamental nursery production is still highly water demanding, which roughly can match with limited availability of high quality...

This proceedings contains 55 papers on the economics and management of animal and crop production, plant breeding, pest control and forest management.

Genome editing, or genome editing with engineered nucleases, is a technology that, using engineered nucleases, allows site-specific single-base mutations or the insertion, deletion or replacement of DNA sequences in a specific site in the genome of an organism. Genome editing is based on the...

The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (Miur) has recently planned the reorganization of the academic fields of competence aiming to rationalize the research and teaching activities of the Universities. With the aim of providing elements to support this discussion, a survey was...

A study was conducted in Italy to compare the strategies of plant water use in pure and mixed plantations of common walnut (Juglans regia). In mixed plantations, walnut was not affected by water stress. Walnut used soil moisture through the functional stratification of the root systems. Canopy...

First report of fruiting sites of Boletus aestivalis in Eucalyptus stands of the Mediterranean area. The sites are in the wooded area of Rossomanno-Grottascura-Bellia in the municipality of Piazza Armerina (EN), Sicily. The report includes also taxonomic and environmental notes as well as...

In this work there is a first census of the lichen florula of the Manduria countryside, a site that occupies the south-eastern part of the province of Taranto, which has been little explored in the lichenological field today, probably due to the strong agricultural vocation of this land and its...

Endophyte is any organism that spends asymptomatically at least part of its life cycle within plant tissues. Each plant can have hundreds of endophyte species, both bacteria and fungi, some of which are useful or indifferent, others could be pathogen towards host plant (endophytic pathogens). Among ...

In the last fifteen years, widespread decline and mortality of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) has been observed in the inner valleys of the western Alps, driven by water stress under climate change. The aim of this paper is to suggest silvicultural measures to prevent and mitigate the impact of...