Last February, the Dip. Agriculture, Rural and Environmental Development, sez. Competitiveness Agri-Food Threads, Puglia region, has officialized the list of local varieties for which the registration process has concluded in the regional register of "Indigenous genetic resources of agricultural, forestry and livestock interest" (DDS No. 48 of 12/02/2020). The list, which is likely to be added in the coming months, includes 69 plant genetic resources and 8 animals. The Institute of Biosciences ...

"Settimana della biodiversità pugliese" in occasione della Giornata Nazionale della Biodiversità istituita dalla legge 194/2016. Le iniziative, coordinate dall'Università degli Studi "Aldo Moro" di Bari in collaborazione con il CNR IBBR di Bari, si svolgeranno su tutto il territorio pugliese, dove saranno aperti al pubblico i campi di conservazione delle antiche varietà e i laboratori dell'Università di Bari, Foggia, Lecce, sedi regionali del CNR e CREA e l'I.T.A S. - I.I.S.S. G. Basile ...

L'Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse di Bari, oltre che sede della Banca del Germoplasma, svolge una importante attività di supporto per il mantenimento on farm delle varietà locali. Un team di ricercatori da anni opera in sinergia con le comunità locali al fine di sensibilizzarle alla tutela del proprio germoplasma e supportarle nei passaggi propedeutici alla valorizzazione delle migliori varietà. Negli anni questa attività ha portato al mantenimento on farm di numerose varietà italiane ...

E' stata inaugurata il 6 settembre a Matera presso il Museo archeologico nazionale "Domenico Ridola" & ex Scuola "Alessando Volta" la mostra Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell'Antropocene, commissionata e prodotta dalla Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 nell'ambito del programma Matera Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019 in coproduzione con Polo Museale della Basilicata e il Museo archeologico nazionale "Domenico Ridola" di Matera. Come segnalato dai responsabili, Salvatore Adduce della ...

"Recovery, characterization, preservation and valorisation of leguminous and forage grains in Puglia" (SaVeGraINPuglia), developed by twenty-one participants in the Temporary Association of Purpose (ATS) of which the Institute of Biosciences and BioRiorse of Bari was lead, ended in February of 2018. At the end of a long journey, started in 2013 within the rural development plans of the region Puglia (PSR), on February 6, 2018 was held in Bari at the Mercure Hotel Villa Romanazzi-Carducci, the ...

The complex nature of sea pollution in urban areas due to antropic activities prevents traditional monitoring techniques from obtaining measurements representative of true human exposure and the real health status of an urban context. 'Citizen Observatories', at urban, regional or global level, used together with innovative technologies can strengthen environmental monitoring capabilities and reduce running costs of institutional protocols. Citizens Observatories (CO) by now are viewed as a ...

The Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources of the National Research Council (IBBR-CNR) hosted a training course at ALSIA - Centro Ricerche Metapontum Agrobios, on a high-throughput and digital plant phenotyping platform. The course aimed at introducing the emerging field of mechanized plant phenotyping. The platform uses imaging methodologies to collect data for complex studies related to plant growth, yield and adaptation to biotic or abiotic stresses. The course has been attended by almost ...

Versatile in cucina e benefico per le sue proprietà antiossidanti e depurative, il carciofo è presente sulle nostre tavole, grazie alle tante varietà presenti in tutta Italia, coltivabili da ottobre a giugno. Al nostro Paese, tra l'altro, spetta il primato della produzione mondiale, pari a 500 mila tonnellate, di cui il 35% in Puglia, il 32% in Sicilia, il 21% in Sardegna, il 7% in Campania e il 4% nel Lazio, su una superficie totale di circa 47.000 ettari. Ben 4 varietà con marchio ...

Antartide è un ancora un'area inesplorata per molti aspetti, incluso la diversità biologica e, anche più, diversità chimica. Grazie alla sua storia evolutiva ed isolamento ecologico, ambienti marini ed Antartici si sono aspettati di ospitare comunità biologiche ed uniche che potevano bioactive di romanzo di biosynthesize combina, potenzialmente prezioso per molte domande come pharmaceuticals, supplementi nutritivi e cosmeceuticals. I nostri scopi sono: 1) assaggiare nuovo / noto, ...

Fornire al settore forestale europeo migliori conoscenze, metodi e strumenti per ottimizzare la gestione e l'uso sostenibile delle risorse genetiche forestali, è un obiettivo sempre più rilevante soprattutto in un contesto di cambiamenti climatici a cui il nostro pianeta sta andando incontro. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, una delle nostre ricerche (www.gentree-h2020.eu) si sta concentrando principalmente sullo studio delle basi molecolari dell'adattamento di 12 specie arboree forestali, ...

The aims of the Seedbank are:to store seeds, to preserve their longevity and genetic diversity, to monitor germination potential and to revaluate deriving pants. Seeds are living creatures and keeping them viable requires adjusting storage moisture and temperature appropriately. Seeds are amenable to storage for very long time as demonstrated by relief of seeds from archeological sites that nowadays are still able to germinate and are kept in other international Seedbanks. In the Seedbank at ...

Gli organismi marini polari sono di grande interesse perchè: (i) sono tra le specie più vulnerabili al cambiamento climatico; (ii) rappresentano una fonte importante di composti naturali bioattivi che possono avere applicazioni nella "drug discovery". Gli adattamenti fisiologici negli organismi marini polari sono stati guidati, nel corso dell'evoluzione, da due fattori molto importanti: la bassa temperatura e l'alta concentrazione di ossigeno. LO STUDIO DEL CASO: LE EMOGLOBINE NEGLI ORGANISMI ...

Phytochemicals trigger cellular pathways leading to the prevention of pathological conditions associated with cancers, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Although this positive association evidenced by interventional and observational studies is debated and subjected to criticism, biochemical and genetic studies on cellular and animal models on the mechanism(s) of action of phytochemicals provide a functional explanation of how and why a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can protect ...

This research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of biological systems involved in agri-food and biotechnological progress, human health and eco-sustainable development. Multidisciplinary investigations in this line deal with functional and molecular studies on proteins, enzymes and microorganisms (archaea and bacteria as a source of hyperstable biocatalizers), and with physiological studies of eucaryotes (plants, algae, filamentous fungi, polar marine organisms, insect host/parasitoid ...

This research focuses on: -the investigation of molecular, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying plant fitness and the quality of their products; -transfer of basic knowledge from model species to species of natural and agricultural interest though translational approaches; -translate into practice the basic knowledge obtained from both biological studies and PGR assessment through biotechnological or "precision" breeding activities. Combining "omics" and bioinformatics platforms and ...

This reseach focuses on: -the comprehension of extant relations among biochemical features of food, nutrition and cellular functions for the assessment of their effects on human and animal health, and their possible role in the disease prevention; -the identification of interactions of genetic, epigenetic, nutritional and environmental factors with human health, and their impacts on growth regulation, homeostasis and cellular differentiation both along development and in physiological and ...

This research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying the following processes: the development and differentiation, the degeneration and senescence, the reproduction, the evolutionary adaptation, the defence from endogenous and exogenous stresses, the maintainance of genomic integrity and fuctionality, the apoptosis, the protein stability, transfer and metabolism, the genetic expression and the signal transduction. The study of the above mechanisms is carried out adopting a ...

This research aim at: -tracing, monitoring, preserving, characterizing and exploiting the biodiversity of species of interest for the agri-food sector, and the natural and agroforestry ecosistems (including non-plant organisms) with the goal of securing their sustanability; -enhancing the knowledge on the evolution of bioresources and their distribution and functional role, with the goal of securing their adaptive potential against stress factors generated by the climate change, and defining ...

The intestinal microbiota plays a key role in promoting maturation of the immune system, particularly during the neonatal period, and is influenced throughout life by environmental factors. In particular, diet plays a central role in the structure and constitution of the gut microbiota. Moreover, it has been suggested that a healthy microbiota exists when there is a balance between symbionts, commensal organisms, and pathobionts. Alterations in this balance can lead to dysbiosis, which has been ...

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"L'impronta varietale data dall'uva utilizzata per la vinificazione è uno degli elementi di maggiore impatto sull'espressione delle note organolettiche dei vini. Se poi la varietà di vite è un vecchio vitigno 'dimenticato', uno di quelli quasi scomparsi dai nostri vigneti per effetto della modernizzazione nell'assortimento, ma di locale valore storico e culturale, allora la questione si fa ancor più affascinante". A dirlo è Anna Schneider dell'Istituto di virologia vegetale (Ivv) del Cnr di ...

Autori: Vignali F., Predieri G., Palanti S., Feci E., Conti E. Titolo Convegno: 9 S.A.Y.C.S., Sigma Aldrich Young Chemists Symposium, Pesaro, 12-14 Ottobre Premio come miglior poster assegnato dal Gruppo Giovani della SCI Società Chimica Italiana.

Gaglioppo, Magliocco, Arvino, Mantonico e Sangiovese, sono solo alcune delle molte cultivar presenti sul territorio calabrese. Denominata 'regione dalle molte uve', la Calabria con i suoi 15 mila ettari impiantati a vite, mostra un patrimonio di biodiversità ricco e variegato, suddiviso tra uve nere, bianche, rosse, viola, rosso grigiastre, spesso dal sapore aromatico. Ma perché proprio in Calabria una così ampia ricchezza di diversità genetica? Secondo uno studio realizzato dall'Istituto di ...

Plant virology was borne as a branch of plant pathology, but has become more and more an independent discipline with strong biochemical and biotechnological implications. The IVV, in collaboration with Extracampus, the web TV of the University of Torino, has produced short video (10') explaining plant virology and some of the problems connected to it. The video gives a very short synthesis of the discovery of viruses as submicroscopic plant pathogens, then a brief description of the viral ...

Sismic tests on a seven-storey building SOFIE has successfully completed in October 23, 2007 at the world's biggest shaking table facility in Miki, near Kobe (Japan), where the seismic conditions of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe in Japan have been simulated. SOFIE - Construction System Fiemme - is a research project on sustainable buildings carried out by the IVALSA with the support of Provincia Autonoma di Trento.

Fire test on the three-storey building SOFIE at the Building Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba (Japan) in March 6, 2007 succeeded in maintaining its mechanical properties and structural integrity even after more than one hour of blast. The "VALERIE" project ("Fire Risk Assessment - Fire reaction of construction products") is a research project to implement a standard procedure for the assessment of design of buildings with wood structures and of their compliance with minimum fire safety ...

Animals, especially those fed with natural pasture, represent real environmental sentinels. Indeed, being them fed with local plants and soil (taken together with grass) in place of breeding, give an idea of the degree of contamination of food and of the food chain. Indeed, many mutagenic substances present in the environment pass through animal products, to humans, laying the foundations for the onset of abnormal clinical picture (reproductive, hormonal and immune disorders). Check these ...

The sheep (Ovis aries, 2n=54) is one of the most economically important livestock species, especially in the Mediterranean Countries. Although linkage and radiation hybrid maps are available, cytogenetic maps found in Web sites are still very poor and built, among other things, on old standard karyotypes. The recent construction of standard karyotypes in domestic bovids, including that of the sheep, based on both high resolution banded models, use of molecular markers and homologous chromosome ...

Laboratory tests were carried out to determine the natural durability of Dunarobba fossil forest wood of Avigliano Umbro to decay fungi and insect colonization (2003) and to develop a methodology, based on 3D scanned digital models, for measurement and monitoring wood deformations, caused by weather changes, in the trees of the fossil forest (2007).

Ivalsa has coordinated the collection and characterization of autochthonous olive genetic resources of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia and has collaborated to the establishment of two international fields (Marrakech and Cordoba) that gathers the olive biodiversity belonging to 16 Mediterranean Countries.