Safeguarding global plant health: the rise of sentinels.

Eschen, R., O'Hanlon, R., Santini, A., Vannini, A., Roques, A., Kirichenko, N., Kenis, M., (2019). Journal of Pest Science 92(1), 29-36. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany. English language

Forewarned is forearmed: harmonized approaches for early detection of potentially invasive pests and pathogens in sentinel plantings.

Morales-Rodríguez, C., Anslan, S., Auger-Rozenberg, M. A., Augusti, S., Baranchikov, Y., Bellahirech, A., Burokienė, D., Čepukoit, D., Çota, E., Davydenko, K., Lehtijärvi, H. H. T. D., Drenkhan, R., Drenkhan, T., Eschen, R., Franic, I., Glavendekić, M., Groot, M. de, Kacprzyk, M., Kenis, M., Kirichenko, N., Matsiakh, I., Musolin, D. L., Nowakowsk, J. A., O'Hanlon, R., Prospero, S., Roques, A., Santini, A., Talgø, V., Tedersoo, L., Uimari, A., Vannini, A., Witzell, J., Woodward, S., Zambounis, A., Cleary, M., (2019). NeoBiota(47), 95-123. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria. English language

First report of Phytophthora cryptogea causing root rot on cherry laurel plants in central Italy.

Vettraino, A. M., Tomassini, A., Valle, M. dalla, Liberati, D., Angelis, P. de, Vannini, A., (2016). Plant Disease 100(5), 1025. American Phytopathological Society (APS Press), St. Paul, USA. English language

Effectiveness of artificial amphibian breeding sites against non-native species in a public protected area in Tuscany, Italy.

Bruni, G., Ricciardi, G., Vannini, A., (2016). Conservation Evidence 13, 12-16. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK. English language

Gambusia holbrooki, the 'tadpolefish': the impact of its predatory behaviour on four protected species of European amphibians.

Vannini, A., Bruni, G., Ricciardi, G., Platania, L., Mori, E., Tricarico, E., (2018). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28(2), 476-484. Wiley, Oxford, UK. English language

Updating the distribution of the American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus (Anura: Ranidae) in Tuscany (Central Italy), with a note on predatory interactions with red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Decapoda: Cambaridae).

Vannini, A., Bruni, G., Cantini, M., Tricarico, E., Inghilesi, A. F., (2015). Italian Journal of Zoology 82(3), 416-424. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK. English language

First report of the ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus compactus and associated fungi in the Mediterranean maquis in Italy, and new host-pest associations.

Vannini, A., Contarini, M., Faccoli, M., Valle, M. dalla, Rodriguez, C. M., Mazzetto, T., Guarneri, D., Vettraino, A. M., Speranza, S., (2017). Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 47(1), 100-103. Wiley, Oxford, UK. English language

The sentinel tree nursery as an early warning system for pathway risk assessment: fungal pathogens associated with Chinese woody plants commonly shipped to Europe.

Vettraino, A. M., Li HongMei, Eschen, R., Morales-Rodriguez, C., Vannini, A., (2017). PLoS ONE 12(11), e0188800. Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA. English language

Pyrosequencing of environmental soil samples reveals biodiversity of the Phytophthora resident community in chestnut forests.

Vannini, A., Bruni, N., Tomassini, A., Franceschini, S., Vettraino, A. M., (2013). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 85(3), 433-442. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. English language