Search Results - "Pezzolesi, Laura"
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Use of waste carbon dioxide and pre-treated liquid digestate from biogas process for Phaeodactylum tricornutum cultivation in photobioreactors and open ponds
Published in Bioresource technology (01-11-2019)“…•P. tricornutum growth with waste products from anaerobic digestion was sustained.•The algal biomass composition did not vary using pure or waste CO2.•EPA…”
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Mediterranean Lithophyllum stictiforme (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) is a genetically diverse species complex: implications for species circumscription, biogeography and conservation of coralligenous habitats
Published in Journal of phycology (01-04-2019)“…Lithophyllum species in the Mediterranean Sea function as algal bioconstructors, contributing to the formation of biogenic habitats such as coralligenous…”
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Natural Astaxanthin Is a Green Antioxidant Able to Counteract Lipid Peroxidation and Ferroptotic Cell Death
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (01-12-2022)“…Astaxanthin is a red orange xanthophyll carotenoid produced mainly by microalgae but which can also be chemically synthesized. As demonstrated by several…”
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Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Ovatoxin-a, the Major Toxin Produced by Ostreopsis ovata
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (25-01-2012)“…Since 2005, the benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata has bloomed across the Mediterranean basin, provoking serious toxic outbreaks. LC/MS studies have…”
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Influence of temperature and salinity on Ostreopsis cf. ovata growth and evaluation of toxin content through HR LC-MS and biological assays
Published in Water research (Oxford) (2012)“…In the Mediterranean Sea, blooms of Ostreopsis cf. ovata and Ostreopsis siamensis have become increasingly frequent in the last decade and O. cf. ovata was…”
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Understanding the Role of Macroalgal Complexity and Allelochemicals Production in Invasive and Non-Invasive Macroalgae in the North-Western Adriatic Sea: Effect on the Associated Communities
Published in Water (Basel) (27-04-2023)“…Highly diverse microphyto and meiobenthic communities are associated with large-sized marine macroalgae. Both morphological traits and allelochemical responses…”
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Modelling the Stoichiometric Regulation of C-Rich Toxins in Marine Dinoflagellates
Published in PloS one (23-09-2015)“…Toxin production in marine microalgae was previously shown to be tightly coupled with cellular stoichiometry. The highest values of cellular toxin are in fact…”
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Comparative growth and toxin profile of cultured Ostreopsis ovata from the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas
Published in Toxicon (Oxford) (01-02-2010)“…Massive blooms of the benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis ovata Fukuyo have recently occurred along the whole Italian coastlines, both Tyrrhenian and Adriatic,…”
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Spring composition of the macroalgal vegetation of a small offshore island in the north-western Mediterranean (Gallinara Island, Ligurian Sea)
Published in Italian botanist (27-05-2022)“…Gallinara Island, a small island located 1.5 km off the shore of Liguria (Italy, north-western Mediterranean Sea) was included in a list of proposed Marine…”
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Toxin levels and profiles in microalgae from the north-Western Adriatic Sea--15 years of studies on cultured species
Published in Marine Drugs (01-01-2012)“…The Northern Adriatic Sea is the area of the Mediterranean Sea where eutrophication and episodes related to harmful algae have occurred most frequently since…”
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Pyrrolidinium-based Ionic Liquids: Aquatic Ecotoxicity, Biodegradability, and Algal Subinhibitory Stimulation
Published in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering (03-08-2015)“…Pyrrolidinium imides are considered among the most promising electrolytes for the development of novel and sustainable portable energy devices. Because of this…”
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Subcellular localization of dinoflagellate polyketide synthases and fatty acid synthase activity
Published in Journal of phycology (01-12-2013)“…Dinoflagellates are prolific producers of polyketide secondary metabolites. Dinoflagellate polyketide synthases (PKSs) have sequence similarity to Type I PKSs,…”
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Toxicity evaluation of Fibrocapsa japonica from the Northern Adriatic Sea through a chemical and toxicological approach
Published in Harmful algae (01-06-2010)“…Since the 1990s red-tide blooms of Fibrocapsa japonica have frequently been observed in European waters; despite their recurrence also in the Adriatic coastal…”
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Comparative life cycle assessment of microalgae cultivation for non-energy purposes using different carbon dioxide sources
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-06-2020)“…The ability of microalgae to sequester carbon and at the same time synthesise valuable compounds with potential applications in nutraceutical, pharmaceutical…”
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Extraction of astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis with hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents based on oleic acid
Published in Food chemistry (15-06-2022)“…•Oleic acid and terpenes are used to prepare DESs composed of safe and edible ingredients.•DESs recover about 60% of the astaxanthin produced by H…”
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Untargeted LC-HRMS applied to microcystin-producing cyanobacterial cultures for the evaluation of the efficiency of chlorine-based treatments commonly used for water potabilization
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-09-2024)“…Cyanobacteria in water supplies are considered an emerging threat, as some species produce toxic metabolites, cyanotoxins, of which the most widespread and…”
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Algal food safety: Possible contaminations, challenges of harmonized quality assessments, and suggested recommendations for the nascent industry of microalgae-based products
Published in Algal research (Amsterdam) (01-07-2024)“…Microalgae are valuable sources of human nutritional products, leading to growing interest in algae-based dietary supplements. Research is still ongoing for…”
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Survey of the allelopathic potential of Mediterranean macroalgae: production of long-chain polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUAs)
Published in Phytochemistry (Oxford) (01-09-2021)“…Chemical interactions between macroalgae and other organisms play an important role in determining species compositions and dominance patterns, and can explain…”
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Inhibitory effect of polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUAs) on the growth of the toxic benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata
Published in Aquatic toxicology (01-10-2016)“…•An inhibitory effect of three toxic PUAs for Ostreopsis cf. ovata growth was shown.•Longer-chain PUAs had a higher inhibitory effect than shorter-chain…”
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Microbial dynamics during harmful dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata growth: Bacterial succession and viral abundance pattern
Published in MicrobiologyOpen (Weinheim) (01-08-2018)“…Algal–bacterial interactions play a major role in shaping diversity of algal associated bacterial communities. Temporal variation in bacterial phylogenetic…”
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