6 documents found, page 1 of 1
Comparison of different pretreatment processes envisaging the potential use of ...
Marques, Fabiana ALmeida; Pereira, Francisco; Machado, Luís Pedro Lima; Martins, Joana T.; Pereira, Ricardo Nuno Correia; Costa, Monya M.A significant fraction of the food produced worldwide is currently lost or wasted throughout the supply chain, squandering natural and economic resources. Food waste valorization will be an important necessity in the coming years. This work investigates the ability of food waste to serve as a viable nutritional substrate for the heterotrophic growth of Chlorella vulgaris. The impact of different pretreatments o...
Heterotrophic and Photoautotrophic Media Optimization Using Response Surface Me...
Correia, Nádia; Pereira, Hugo; Schulze, Peter; Costa, Monya M.; Santo, Gonçalo E.; Guerra, Inês; Trovão, Mafalda; Barros, Ana; Cardoso, HelenaABSTRACT: The nutritional requirements of novel microalgal strains are key for their effective cultivation and metabolite content. Therefore, the optimization of heterotrophic and photoautotrophic culture media is crucial for novel Chlorococcum amblystomatis growth. Heterotrophic and photoautotrophic biomass samples were characterized to identify the differences between their heterotrophic and photoautotrophic ...
Leaf proteome modulation and cytological features of seagrass Cymodocea nodosa ...
Piro, Amalia; Bernardo, Letizia; Serra, Ilia Anna; Barrote, Isabel; Olivé, Irene; Costa, Monya M.; Lucini, Luigi; Santos, Rui; Mazzuca, SilviaSeagrass Cymodocea nodosa was sampled off the Vulcano island, in the vicinity of a submarine volcanic vent. Leaf samples were collected from plants growing in a naturally acidified site, influenced by the long-term exposure to high CO2 emissions, and compared with others collected in a nearby meadow living at normal pCO2 conditions. The differential accumulated proteins in leaves growing in the two contrasting ...
Depth-specific fluctuations of gene expression and protein abundance modulate t...
Procaccini, Gabriele; Ruocco, Miriam; Marin-Guirao, Lazaro; Dattolo, Emanuela; Brunet, Christophe; D'Esposito, Daniela; Lauritano, ChiaraHere we present the results of a multiple organizational level analysis conceived to identify acclimative/adaptive strategies exhibited by the seagrass Posidonia oceanica to the daily fluctuations in the light environment, at contrasting depths. We assessed changes in photophysiological parameters, leaf respiration, pigments, and protein and mRNA expression levels. The results show that the diel oscillations of...
Linking gene expression to productivity to unravel long-and short-term response...
Olive, Irene; Silva, João; Lauritano, Chiara; Costa, Monya M.; Ruocco, Miriam; Procaccini, Gabriele; Santos, RuiOcean acidification is a major threat for marine life but seagrasses are expected to benefit from high CO2. In situ (long-term) and transplanted (short-term) plant incubations of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa were performed near and away the influence of volcanic CO2 vents at Vulcano Island to test the hypothesis of beneficial effects of CO2 on plant productivity. We relate, for the first time, the expression o...
Essential oil composition of Pterospartum tridentatum grown in Portugal
Grosso, A. Clara; Costa, Monya M.; Ganco, Luisa; Pereira, Ana L.; Teixeira, Generosa; Lavado, Jose M. G.; Figueiredo, A. Cristina; Barroso, Jose G.The essential oils, isolated by hydrodistillation and distillation-extraction, from the aerial parts of different populations of Pterospartum tridentatum collected during the flowering phase, at different locations in Portugal, were analysed by GC and GC-MS. All the P. tridentatum populations studied afforded a yellowish oil in a yield 0.05% (v/w). cis-Theaspirane (2-14%), trans-theaspirane (2-17%) and octen-3-...