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READ MOREby Maria Chiara Rosace, Antonino Napoleone | June 30, 2022. Edited by Ivy Rose Sebastian. Due to the international trade of agricultural products, there is always a latent risk of inadvertently transferring pathogens, which could lead to certain outbreaks that could affect the local agriculture.Citrus black spot is a disease that causes considerable economic trouble […]
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By Maria Chiara Rosace, Antonino Napoleone | January 19, 2022. Edited by Ivy Rose Sebastian. Burying the dead is a ritual of great social significance and is rooted in ancient origins, but did you know that it is not a practice exclusive to Homo sapiens? Surprisingly, some insects, including bees, ants, and termites, also take […]
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By Maria Chiara Rosace, Giuseppe Scarlata, Antonino Napoleone | October 7, 2021. Imagine if you were to ask your doctor to get a drug migraine medicine prescribed to treat an annoying headache. The doctor accepts your request, you get a suitable pill and your condition improves. However, the pill contained no medicinal substance or active […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace e Caterina Campese1 | July 15, 2021. 1. Junion officer (Randstand) at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) During more than 400 million years of co-evolution with insects, plants have developed a very diverse spectrum of morphological, molecular, and biochemical defences to resist their attacks. The co-evolutionary processes also naturally affect the […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Giuseppe Scarlata, Antonino Napoleone | March 18, 2021. Not all animals need to mate for reproduction, sometimes females are perfectly capable to reproduce without the help of a male. Are you surprised?It is true, most of the time you need two essential ingredients, egg cell, and spermatozoon, to be able to […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Giuseppe Scarlata, Antonino Napoleone | February 12, 2021. Within the so different food sphere, some people approach to novelties showing curiosity, some others feel aversion or repulsion and others instead are willing to include new food into their diet. Beyond any personal preference and taste, there is a real possibility that […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Sara Legler1, Vittorio Rossi2 | January 15, 2021 1 HORTA.srl., Via Egidio Gorra 55, 29122 Piacenza, Italy 2 Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 29122 Piacenza, Italia Several writers from the past identify Italy, and particularly southern Italian regions, as Enotria tellus, the land of wine. “There the Oenotrians lived: […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Filippo Toscano, Antonino Napoleone | November 19, 2020. The most restless volcano in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has once again been in the international spotlight. Thanks to an incredible shot, the photographer Luciano Gaudenzio won the prestigious “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” award, for the “Earth’s environment” category, a […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Ciro Gardi 1 | October 26, 2020 Scientific officer at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Having access to safe and healthy food is a fundamental asset for human health and it is certainly clearer now that in order for it to be guaranteed, soils must be equally healthy (read more here: […]
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by Maria Chiara Rosace, Ciro Gardi1 | 20 Ottobre 2020. Scientific officer at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Soil has a significant impact on human health and activities, whether those effects are positive or negative, direct or indirect. Life and human evolution itself have always been linked to soil: since the time of the first […]
