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De Martinis D, Hitzeroth II, Matsuda R, Soto Pérez N, Benvenuto E. Editorial: Engineering the Plant Biofactory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines-Volume 2. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:942746. [PMID: 35873996 PMCID: PMC9301360 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.942746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- Domenico De Martinis
- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Rome, Italy
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Plant Biotechnology Department, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), Havana, Cuba
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- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Rome, Italy
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De Martinis D, Rybicki EP, Colonna N, Benvenuto E, Llorente B. Editorial: Next Generation Agriculture: Understanding Plant Life for Food, Health and Energy. Front Plant Sci 2020; 11:1238. [PMID: 32903412 PMCID: PMC7434929 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Domenico De Martinis
- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
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- Biopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
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- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
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- ARC Center of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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De Martinis D, Rybicki EP, Fujiyama K, Franconi R, Benvenuto E. Editorial: Plant Molecular Farming: Fast, Scalable, Cheap, Sustainable. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:1148. [PMID: 27536308 PMCID: PMC4971507 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Domenico De Martinis
- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
- *Correspondence: Domenico De Martinis
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- Biopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape TownCape Town, South Africa
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- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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Demurtas OC, Massa S, Illiano E, De Martinis D, Chan PKS, Di Bonito P, Franconi R. Antigen Production in Plant to Tackle Infectious Diseases Flare Up: The Case of SARS. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:54. [PMID: 26904039 PMCID: PMC4742786 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 01/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a dangerous infection with pandemic potential. It emerged in 2002 and its aetiological agent, the SARS Coronavirus (SARS-CoV), crossed the species barrier to infect humans, showing high morbidity and mortality rates. No vaccines are currently licensed for SARS-CoV and important efforts have been performed during the first outbreak to develop diagnostic tools. Here we demonstrate the transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana of two important antigenic determinants of the SARS-CoV, the nucleocapsid protein (N) and the membrane protein (M) using a virus-derived vector or agro-infiltration, respectively. For the M protein, this is the first description of production in plants, while for plant-derived N protein we demonstrate that it is recognized by sera of patients from the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003. The availability of recombinant N and M proteins from plants opens the way to further evaluation of their potential utility for the development of diagnostic and protection/therapy tools to be quickly manufactured, at low cost and with minimal risk, to face potential new highly infectious SARS-CoV outbreaks.
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- Olivia C. Demurtas
- Department of Sustainability, Biotechnology Laboratory, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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- Department of Sustainability, Biotechnology Laboratory, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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- Department of Sustainability, Biomedical Technology Laboratory, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
- Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli Studi di MilanoMilan, Italy
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- International Relations Office, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales HospitalHong Kong, China
- Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales HospitalHong Kong, China
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated DiseasesRome, Italy
- *Correspondence: Rosella Franconi, ; Paola Di Bonito,
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- Department of Sustainability, Biomedical Technology Laboratory, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
- *Correspondence: Rosella Franconi, ; Paola Di Bonito,
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Affiliation(s)
- Domenico De Martinis
- ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRome, Italy
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of MarylandCollege Park, MD, USA
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Morris J, Willis J, De Martinis D, Hansen B, Laursen H, Sintes JR, Kearns P, Gonzalez M. Science policy considerations for responsible nanotechnology decisions. Nat Nanotechnol 2011; 6:73-7. [PMID: 21151111 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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- Jeff Morris
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460, USA.
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Jiménez JB, Orea JM, Montero C, Ureña AG, Navas E, Slowing K, Gómez-Serranillos MP, Carretero E, De Martinis D. Resveratrol treatment controls microbial flora, prolongs shelf life, and preserves nutritional quality of fruit. J Agric Food Chem 2005; 53:1526-1530. [PMID: 15740035 DOI: 10.1021/jf048426a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
Resveratrol is known as a grapevine secondary metabolite with fungicide activity. Its exogenous application on harvested grapes resulted in the reduction of microbial flora growth, and consequently, prolonged shelf life, without affecting the nutritional quality of the fruit. Resveratrol treatment also resulted in being effective on fruit that normally does not accumulate such metabolites as, for example, tomatoes, apples, avocado pears, and peppers. As a result, all treated fruits maintained their post-harvest quality and health longer than the untreated ones. This study demonstrates the potential use of resveratrol as a natural pesticide to reduce post-harvest fungi development on a broad spectrum of fruit types.
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- Jorge Bernardo Jiménez
- Unidad de Láseres y Haces Moleculares, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, PC Juan XXIII, 1. 28040-Madrid, Spain
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A laser-based ethylene detector was used for on-line monitoring of ethylene released by the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea in vitro and in tomato fruit. Ethylene data were combined with the results of a cytological analysis of germination of B. cinerea conidia and hyphal growth. We found that aminoethoxyvinylglycine and aminooxyacetic acid, which are competitive inhibitors of the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid pathway, did not inhibit the ethylene emission by B. cinerea and that the fungus most likely produces ethylene via the 2-keto-4-methylthiobutyric acid pathway. B. cinerea is able to produce ethylene in vitro, and the emission of ethylene follows the pattern that is associated with hyphal growth rather than the germination of conidia. Ethylene production in vitro depended on the L-methionine concentration added to the plating medium. Higher values and higher emission rates were observed when the concentration of conidia was increased. Compared with the ethylene released by the fungus, the infection-related ethylene produced by two tomato cultivars (cultivars Money Maker and Daniela) followed a similar pattern, but the levels of emission were 100-fold higher. The time evolution of enhanced ethylene production by the infected tomatoes and the cytological observations indicate that ethylene emission by the tomato-fungus system is not triggered by the ethylene produced by B. cinerea, although it is strongly synchronized with the growth rate of the fungus inside the tomato.
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- Simona M Cristescu
- Department of Molecular and Laser Physics, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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