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List of works by Francesca Degola

A Biotechnological Approach for the Development of New Antifungal Compounds to Protect the Environment and the Human Health.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

A Cd/Fe/Zn-responsive phytochelatin synthase is constitutively present in the ancient liverwort Lunularia cruciata (L.) dumort

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A battery of assays as an integrated approach to evaluate fungal and mycotoxin inhibition properties and cytotoxic/genotoxic side-effects for the prioritization in the screening of thiosemicarbazone derivatives.

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Antiaflatoxigenic Thiosemicarbazones as Crop-Protective Agents: A Cytotoxic and Genotoxic Study

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Aspergillus flavus as a Model System to Test the Biological Activity of Botanicals: An Example on Citrullus colocynthis L. Schrad. Organic Extracts.

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Combined microscopy and molecular analyses show phloem occlusions and cell wall modifications in tomato leaves in response to 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani'.

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Correlation between hormonal homeostasis and morphogenic responses in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings growing in a Cd/Cu/Zn multi-pollution context.

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Development of a simple and high-throughput method for detecting aflatoxins production in culture media.

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Double Gamers-Can Modified Natural Regulators of Higher Plants Act as Antagonists against Phytopathogens? The Case of Jasmonic Acid Derivatives

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Facing the problem of "false positives": re-assessment and improvement of a multiplex RT-PCR procedure for the diagnosis of A. flavus mycotoxin producers.

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Filamentous sieve element proteins are able to limit phloem mass flow, but not phytoplasma spread.

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Glutamate dehydrogenase isoenzyme 3 (GDH3) of Arabidopsis thaliana is less thermostable than GDH1 and GDH2 isoenzymes

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Glutamate dehydrogenase isoenzyme 3 (GDH3) of Arabidopsis thaliana is regulated by a combined effect of nitrogen and cytokinin.

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

In vitro evaluation of the activity of thiosemicarbazone derivatives against mycotoxigenic fungi affecting cereals.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Laboratory tests for assessing efficacy of atoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strains as biocontrol agents.

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

OHMS**: Phytoplasmas dictate changes in sieve-element ultrastructure to accommodate their requirements for nutrition, multiplication and translocation

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Overexpression of AtPCS1 in tobacco increases arsenic and arsenic plus cadmium accumulation and detoxification

scientific article (publication date: March 2016)

Phyto-Beneficial Traits of Rhizosphere Bacteria: In Vitro Exploration of Plant Growth Promoting and Phytopathogen Biocontrol Ability of Selected Strains Isolated from Harsh Environments

scientific article published in 2022

Phytoplasma infection in tomato is associated with re-organization of plasma membrane, ER stacks, and actin filaments in sieve elements

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Polyphasic approach for differentiating Penicillium nordicum from Penicillium verrucosum.

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Sabotage at the Powerhouse? Unraveling the Molecular Target of 2-Isopropylbenzaldehyde Thiosemicarbazone, a Specific Inhibitor of Aflatoxin Biosynthesis and Sclerotia Development in Aspergillus flavus, Using Yeast as a Model System

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Structural modification of cuminaldehyde thiosemicarbazone increases inhibition specificity toward aflatoxin biosynthesis and sclerotia development in Aspergillus flavus

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The capability to synthesize phytochelatins and the presence of constitutive and functional phytochelatin synthases are ancestral (plesiomorphic) characters for basal land plants

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

The phytochelatin synthase from Nitella mucronata (Charophyta) plays a role in the homeostatic control of iron(II)/(III).

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

The symbiosis between Nicotiana tabacum and the endomycorrhizal fungus Funneliformis mosseae increases the plant glutathione level and decreases leaf cadmium and root arsenic contents.

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Thiosemicarbazone scaffold for the design of antifungal and antiaflatoxigenic agents: evaluation of ligands and related copper complexes

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Validation and Ecological Niche Investigation of a New Fungal Intraspecific Competitor as a Biocontrol Agent for the Sustainable Containment of Aflatoxins on Maize Fields

scientific article published on 21 April 2022