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Published: 07 May 2021 in Circular Economy and Sustainability
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Plastics from fossil source are third after steel and cement among the most widespread materials used in the buildings sector. Bioplastics are biopolymers that offer a sustainable alternative due to their biodegradability and compostability. The edible first-generation sugary-based feedstocks, having high costs that drive the market price even in presence of a large-scale production of bioplastics, should be partly replaced by 2030 with non-edible second-generation feedstocks based on recyclable organic solid agro-wastes according to “Green Deal” of the European Union. The winemaking wastes used as feedstock for the synthesis of biopolymer building blocks and reinforcing fillers could represent a suitable option to reduce biopolymer costs and increase their competitiveness in plastic market. Although bioplastic can solve more environmental issues, nonetheless the production cycle does not always respect the principles of sustainability overall during biopolymer recovery. The present feasibility study is aimed at taking the state of the art of bioplastics in the buildings industry for promoting winemaking co-products into a circular system. The literature data have been collected, consulted and empirically elaborated to find real and potential opportunities, barriers and challenges of developing wine wastes (e.g. wine shoots, grape pomace and wine lees) in the strategic market segment of bioclimatic architecture.

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Ugo De Corato. Bioplastics from Winemaking By-products in the Buildings Sector: A Feasibility Study on the Main Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges. Circular Economy and Sustainability 2021, 1 -21.

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Ugo De Corato. Bioplastics from Winemaking By-products in the Buildings Sector: A Feasibility Study on the Main Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 2021; ():1-21.

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Ugo De Corato. 2021. "Bioplastics from Winemaking By-products in the Buildings Sector: A Feasibility Study on the Main Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges." Circular Economy and Sustainability , no. : 1-21.

Retraction
Published: 04 February 2021 in Sustainability
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The journal retracts the article “Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review” by Ugo De Corato

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Ugo De Corato. Retraction: De Corato, U. Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1688 .

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Ugo De Corato. Retraction: De Corato, U. Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1688.

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Ugo De Corato. 2021. "Retraction: De Corato, U. Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1688.

Review
Published: 22 December 2020 in Sustainability
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This review pays attention to the newest insights on the soil microbiome in plant disease-suppressive soil (DSS) for sustainable plant health management from the perspective of a circular economy that provides beneficial microbiota by recycling agro-wastes into the soil. In order to increase suppression of soil-borne plant pathogens, the main goal of this paper is to critically discuss and compare the potential use of reshaped soil microbiomes by assembling different agricultural practices such as crop selection; land use and conservative agriculture; crop rotation, diversification, intercropping and cover cropping; compost and chitosan application; and soil pre-fumigation combined with organic amendments and bio-organic fertilizers. This review is seen mostly as a comprehensive understanding of the main findings regarding DSS, starting from the oldest concepts to the newest challenges, based on the assumption that sustainability for soil quality and plant health is increasingly viable and supported by microbiome-assisted strategies based on the next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods that characterize in depth the soil bacterial and fungal communities. This approach, together with the virtuous reuse of agro-wastes to produce in situ green composts and organic bio-fertilizers, is the best way to design new sustainable cropping systems in a circular economy system. The current knowledge on soil-borne pathogens and soil microbiota is summarized at the beginning of the paper. How microbiota determine soil suppression and what NGS strategies are available to understand soil microbiomes in DSS are presented in the third section. Disturbance of soil microbiota based on combined agricultural practices is deeply considered in the fourth section. Sustainable soil microbiome management by recycling in situ agro-wastes is presented and critically discussed in the fifth section. Afterwards, how the resulting new insights can drive the progress in sustainable microbiome-based disease management is discussed at the end of the paper.

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Ugo De Corato. Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review. Sustainability 2020, 13, 10 .

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Ugo De Corato. Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review. Sustainability. 2020; 13 (1):10.

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Ugo De Corato. 2020. "Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 10.

Editorial
Published: 30 November 2020 in Rhizosphere
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Chetan Keswani; Ugo De Corato; Estibaliz Sansinenea; Sina M. Adl. Towards a new horizon of sustainable agriculture with microorganisms useful in agriculture. Rhizosphere 2020, 17, 100293 .

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Chetan Keswani, Ugo De Corato, Estibaliz Sansinenea, Sina M. Adl. Towards a new horizon of sustainable agriculture with microorganisms useful in agriculture. Rhizosphere. 2020; 17 ():100293.

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Chetan Keswani; Ugo De Corato; Estibaliz Sansinenea; Sina M. Adl. 2020. "Towards a new horizon of sustainable agriculture with microorganisms useful in agriculture." Rhizosphere 17, no. : 100293.

Editorial
Published: 12 November 2020 in Sustainability
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The major issues related to indiscriminate land use are overall related to topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, plant disease outbreaks, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, global vision focused on the environmental impact and use of eco-friendly strategies are increasing. The design of new agroecosystems and food systems are fundamental to make more sustainability in soil management systems by improving the release of advanced ecosystems services for farmers. Sustainable agriculture utilizes natural renewable resources in the best way due to their intrinsic features by minimizing harmful impact on the agroecosystems. Farmers should sustain or even increase the soil organic matter (SOM) content overall in depleted, semiarid and arid soils. Nutrients recycled from agro-waste into the soil using residual biomass sources should be endorsed by diversified agriculture and governmental policies in which livestock and crop production are spatially integrated. Many good agricultural practices that growers may use to promote soil quality and soil health by minimizing water use and soil pollution on farms are yet available from past years. Exploration of the natural soil biodiversity and manipulation of soil microbiota by continuous amendment with compost, biochar and digestate represents a pre-requisite to develop more efficient microbial consortia useful for soils and crops. On the other hand, more attention is proven regarding the sustainable use of useful microorganisms employed as pure inoculants in rhizosphere. Among them, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and biological control agents cover the major groups of tailored inoculants in order to rationalize the internal recycling of nutrients and their energy recovery, or to improve the soil quality and plant health thanks to their diversified mechanisms of action and complex interactions between SOM, microbiota and plant roots in the rhizosphere.

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Ugo De Corato. Towards New Soil Management Strategies for Improving Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Agriculture: Editorial Overview. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9398 .

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Ugo De Corato. Towards New Soil Management Strategies for Improving Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Agriculture: Editorial Overview. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9398.

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Ugo De Corato. 2020. "Towards New Soil Management Strategies for Improving Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Agriculture: Editorial Overview." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9398.

Review
Published: 11 September 2020 in Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture
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Soil microbiota plays a key role in suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens improving the natural soil suppressiveness. Microbiome disturbance triggers specific perturbation to change and shape the soil microbial communities’ network for increasing suppression against phytopathogens and related diseases. Very important goals have been reached in manipulation of soil microbiota through agronomical practices based on soil pre-fumigation, organic amendment, crop rotation and intercropping. Nevertheless, to limit inconsistencies, drawbacks and failures related to soil microbiota disturbance, a detailed understanding of the microbiome shifts during its manipulation is needed under the light of the microbiome-assisted strategies. Next-generation sequencing often offers a better overview of the soil microbial communities during microbiomes manipulation, but sometime it does not provide information related to the highest taxonomic resolution of the soil microbial communities. This review work reports and discusses the most reliable findings in relation to a comprehensive understanding of soil microbiota and how its manipulation can improve suppression against soil-borne diseases in organic farming systems. Role and functionality of the soil microbiota in suppressing soil-borne pathogens affecting crops have been basically described in the first section of the paper. Characterization of the soil microbiomes network by high-throughput sequencing has been introduced in the second section. Some relevant findings by which soil microbiota manipulation can address the design of novel sustainable cropping systems to sustain crops’ health without use (or reduced use) of synthetic fungicides and fumigants have been extensively presented and discussed in the third and fourth sections, respectively, under the light of the new microbiome-assisted strategies. Critical comparisons on the next-generation sequencing have been provided in the fifth section. Concluding remarks have been drawn in the last section.

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Ugo De Corato. Soil microbiota manipulation and its role in suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens in organic farming systems under the light of microbiome-assisted strategies. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2020, 7, 1 -26.

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Ugo De Corato. Soil microbiota manipulation and its role in suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens in organic farming systems under the light of microbiome-assisted strategies. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture. 2020; 7 (1):1-26.

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Ugo De Corato. 2020. "Soil microbiota manipulation and its role in suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens in organic farming systems under the light of microbiome-assisted strategies." Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 7, no. 1: 1-26.

Journal article
Published: 05 August 2020 in Soil Systems
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The adoption of sewage sludge as an agricultural management strategy to improve soil properties and crop production is attracting great interest. Despite many positive effects on soil inorganic and organic components reported for different soil types, little information is available on sewage sludge application on Mediterranean soils, as well as on its use at different dose rates. The objectives of the present research was to evaluate, through an integrated approach, the effects of sewage sludge compost from urban wastewater on physicochemical, hydrological, biochemical parameters, and microbiota composition in soil pots under a three-year crop rotation system. Four different doses of sewage sludge compost (C3, C6, C9, C12) from municipal wastewater and a dose of them in combination with mineral fertilizer (C6N) were used. We have used 3-6-9-12 Mg/ha of sewage sludge compost for the treatments C3, C6, C9 and C12, respectively, and 6 Mg/ha of sewage sludge compost in combination with 60 kg/ha of ammonium nitrate for the treatment C6N.The effects were compared to non-fertilized (C0) and mineral fertilized (Min) sets of controls. The electrical conductivity, soil pH, stability of soil aggregates, percent of moisture of the dry soil both at the field capacity and at the wilting point, available P, and exchangeable K were all positively affected by increasing the amounts of composted sludge. The organic carbon and total N increased up to 66% and 39%, respectively. Increased enzymatic activities and microbial biomass were also observed in soil after the application of sewage sludge compost when compared to un-amended control. A higher richness and evenness among the soil plots amended with sewage sludge compost was observed, with no significant differences among the application dose rates, when compared to the un-amended soil control and soil treated with a mineral fertilizer. A three-year amendment was able to separate soil plots amended with high doses of sewage sludge compost from the low dose amended and control samples. Among the microbial groups responsible for such marked separation, bacteria belonging to Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, Cyanobacteria and Bacteroidetes contribute the most, with a shift from oligotrophic to copiotrophic taxa. Significant changes in bacterial composition and taxonomic structure should be considered in order to properly balance agronomic and economic advantages with environmental concerns. After all, our results have evidenced the effects of sewage sludge amendment on different soil properties, microbial activity, and composition already after a short period of application. The findings are particularly relevant in semiarid soils, where an immediate restoration of soil fertility by short-term compost application is needed.

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Maddalena Curci; Anna Lavecchia; Giovanna Cucci; Giovanni LaColla; Ugo De Corato; Carmine Crecchio. Short-Term Effects of Sewage Sludge Compost Amendment on Semiarid Soil. Soil Systems 2020, 4, 48 .

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Maddalena Curci, Anna Lavecchia, Giovanna Cucci, Giovanni LaColla, Ugo De Corato, Carmine Crecchio. Short-Term Effects of Sewage Sludge Compost Amendment on Semiarid Soil. Soil Systems. 2020; 4 (3):48.

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Maddalena Curci; Anna Lavecchia; Giovanna Cucci; Giovanni LaColla; Ugo De Corato; Carmine Crecchio. 2020. "Short-Term Effects of Sewage Sludge Compost Amendment on Semiarid Soil." Soil Systems 4, no. 3: 48.

Review
Published: 02 June 2020 in Science of The Total Environment
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The vegetables supply chain of intensive farming systems has gained huge relevance due to environmental pollution, residual toxicity towards microorganisms and humans, development of plant pathogen resistance, biodiversity loss, and hazard to human health. Studies addressed to clean from misuse of plant fungicides, soil fumigants, and fertilizers have encouraged the search of eco-friendly alternatives. This paper aims to give deeper understand of new insights for on-farm composting and compost-based tea application for soil and plant through the virtuous reuse of agricultural waste. On-farm composting is viable option thanks to benefits on soil quality and plant health which valorize underused biomass. This paper critically discusses and compares the most promising technologies in order to recycle in situ residual biomass into high-value added products for soil amendment (compost) and plant treatment (compost-based tea). Compost contains minerals, heavy metals, humic substances, and endogenous microorganisms to improve soil quality. Compost application had many benefits against plant pathogens and diseases due to innovative tailored formulates. Compost can be employed either alone or in combination with exogenous microbial consortia (protists, fungi, oomycetes, yeast, actinomycetes, and bacteria) acting as biological control agents by fitting the agrochemical market requirements for improving soil quality and plant health. Liquid formulations made of crude compost-based teas and/or tailored mixtures of humic acids, fulvic acids, humin, macro-micronutrients, and endogenous microbiota have many benefits for plant growth and crop health. Nonetheless, the complex European regulations and national laws, manure surplus, variability in availability and transporting of compost, variability in compost quality and feedstock composition, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy requirement were very hard barriers for on-farm composting and compost derivatives application. Recommendations, novelties, innovations, sustainability, and directions of future researches that may help to solve a number of these issues under the new perspective of a circular economy system were presented and discussed.

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Ugo De Corato. Agricultural waste recycling in horticultural intensive farming systems by on-farm composting and compost-based tea application improves soil quality and plant health: A review under the perspective of a circular economy. Science of The Total Environment 2020, 738, 139840 .

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Ugo De Corato. Agricultural waste recycling in horticultural intensive farming systems by on-farm composting and compost-based tea application improves soil quality and plant health: A review under the perspective of a circular economy. Science of The Total Environment. 2020; 738 ():139840.

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Ugo De Corato. 2020. "Agricultural waste recycling in horticultural intensive farming systems by on-farm composting and compost-based tea application improves soil quality and plant health: A review under the perspective of a circular economy." Science of The Total Environment 738, no. : 139840.

Journal article
Published: 06 May 2020 in Applied Soil Ecology
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Crop rotation is a common practice aimed at enhancing both plant disease suppression and crop productivity under open field condition. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of tomato-wheat rotation on Fusarium wilt suppression and shoot growth on tomato in comparison to tomato monoculture. The following factors were determined and integrated through a transdisciplinary approach: (i) soil chemical parameters; (ii) abundance, composition, richness and diversity of soil fungal and bacterial communities; (iii) soil biochemical and enzymatic indicators; (iv) abundance of Fusarium oxysporum isolates in rhizosphere under tomato cultivation and evaluation of the pathogenicity of the isolates; (v) suppressive response of the bulk soil samples against a selected pathogenic strain of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici on tomato; and (vi) tomato shoot growth. The integrated approach included soil amplicon sequencing by metabarcoding analyses carried out by Illumina MiSeq platform in association with the standard procedure for soil analyses. In addition, the pathogenicity of F. oxysporum from the tomato rhizosphere and the suppressive response of the soil bulk to Fusarium wilt were performed by bioassays under greenhouse condition. The results showed that, if durum wheat was rotated with cherry tomato for at least four consecutive years, it had the following beneficial effects: (i) increased suppressive response of the bulk soil samples against F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, (ii) decreased abundance of the F. oxysporum isolates in tomato rhizosphere, (iii) decreased pathogenicity of the F. oxysporum isolates, and (iv) increased tomato shoot growth. The increased abundance of certain microbial groups belonging to potential biocontrol agents against fusaria-related wilt including Bacillales (Bacillus and Paenibacillus), Pseudomonadales (Pseudomonas), Streptomycetales (Streptomyces), Eurotiales (Aspergillus and Penicillium) and Mortierellales (Mortierella), as well as the highest tomato shoot growth, coincided with the end of the second wheat rotation cycle. There were significant Spearman cross-correlations and two-way ANOVA interactions among the microbiome variables with the (i) soil chemical parameters, (ii) abundance and pathogenicity of the F. oxysporum isolates in tomato rhizosphere, (iii) soil suppression to Fusarium wilt, and (iv) tomato shoot growth. The results indicate that a soil managed under tomato-wheat rotation displays increased suppressive response against Fusarium wilt and improved shoot growth in tomato plants by changing the microbial composition and chemical parameters of the soil.

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Ugo De Corato; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Rocco Salimbeni; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci; Carmine Crecchio. Soil management under tomato-wheat rotation increases the suppressive response against Fusarium wilt and tomato shoot growth by changing the microbial composition and chemical parameters. Applied Soil Ecology 2020, 154, 103601 .

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Ugo De Corato, Luigi Patruno, Nicola Avella, Rocco Salimbeni, Giovanni Lacolla, Giovanna Cucci, Carmine Crecchio. Soil management under tomato-wheat rotation increases the suppressive response against Fusarium wilt and tomato shoot growth by changing the microbial composition and chemical parameters. Applied Soil Ecology. 2020; 154 ():103601.

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Ugo De Corato; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Rocco Salimbeni; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci; Carmine Crecchio. 2020. "Soil management under tomato-wheat rotation increases the suppressive response against Fusarium wilt and tomato shoot growth by changing the microbial composition and chemical parameters." Applied Soil Ecology 154, no. : 103601.

Review article
Published: 05 February 2020 in Rhizosphere
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Plant diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens have been recognized as a critical factor worldwide for plant health and productivity overall in intensive cropping systems characterized by low organic matter content and frequent soil tillage. Very important goals have been reached in soil microbiota manipulation using organic amendment based on disease-suppressive compost where a specific soil disturbance addressed to change and shape the soil microbial communities network was stimulated. The supplementation of beneficial microbiota from compost into conducive soils represents a promising strategy for increasing suppression against soil-borne pathogens in view to search alternatives to synthetic chemicals. Soil microbiota plays a key role in crop protection improving natural soil suppressiveness. To limit inconsistencies, drawbacks and failures related to indiscriminate use of compost derived from feedstocks of different origin and composition, a detailed understanding of the microbial communities inhabitant the composts and their mechanisms of action in suppressing soil-borne pathogens have been elucidated in this paper overall in relation to role of soil organic matter. This review describes and discusses the main effects and impacts due to long-term application of disease-suppressive compost against soil-borne pathogens inducing soil microbiota change. The most reliable findings related to biocontrol-based microbiota have been discussed within a wider scenario regarding the agriculturally important microorganisms for sustainable agricultural productivity in a circular economy system. In particular, the role of the soil microbiota in plant health and productivity has been introduced in the first section of the paper. The key role of the compost microbiota explaining how a disease-suppressive compost can enhance soil suppressiveness has been recalled in the second section. The key roles of the soil organic matter, soil microbial biomass and biodiversity as support of the microbial activity of disease-suppressive compost have been in-depth presented and discussed in the third section. The predictors of suppressiveness in compost-amended soils have been critically discussed in the fourth section. The different methodological approaches for characterizing compost microbiota have been compared in the fifth section. Concluding remarks were drawn in the last section overall as to support the future research directions.

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Ugo De Corato. Disease-suppressive compost enhances natural soil suppressiveness against soil-borne plant pathogens: A critical review. Rhizosphere 2020, 13, 100192 .

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Ugo De Corato. Disease-suppressive compost enhances natural soil suppressiveness against soil-borne plant pathogens: A critical review. Rhizosphere. 2020; 13 ():100192.

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Ugo De Corato. 2020. "Disease-suppressive compost enhances natural soil suppressiveness against soil-borne plant pathogens: A critical review." Rhizosphere 13, no. : 100192.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2019 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Ugo De Corato; Fernando Antonio Cancellara. Measures, technologies, and incentives for cleaning the minimally processed fruits and vegetables supply chain in the Italian food industry. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 237, 1 .

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Ugo De Corato, Fernando Antonio Cancellara. Measures, technologies, and incentives for cleaning the minimally processed fruits and vegetables supply chain in the Italian food industry. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 237 ():1.

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Ugo De Corato; Fernando Antonio Cancellara. 2019. "Measures, technologies, and incentives for cleaning the minimally processed fruits and vegetables supply chain in the Italian food industry." Journal of Cleaner Production 237, no. : 1.

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Published: 01 July 2019 in Crop Protection
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The need for studying tailored composts, as new feedstocks become available with time, become increasing need exists for the in-depth study of suppressive composts derived from recycling green wastes and agro-industrial co/by-products. The composition, diversity and variability of microbiomes within a collection of 10 composts were investigated by amplicon sequencing and bioinformatics analyses. The observed differences in microbiome structure were related to the different compost origin. The multi-suppressive properties of composts from agricultural residues, agro-industrial co/by-products, and plant green-waste showed the most complex microbiome structure, which included either biocontrol agents associated with the control of Rhizoctonia damping-off in bean and Verticillium wilt in eggplant or microbial consortia for controlling Pythium damping-off in cucumber and zucchini and Phytophthora root rot in tomato and azalea. In contrast, the pathogen-specific property of composts from municipal solid waste and co-composted cow manure household waste showed a microbiome that overall included biocontrol agents against Fusarium wilt in tomato, melon and basil. The highest correlations between physicochemical properties, disease suppression, and the microbiome have allowed to make a helpful matrix to know how relationships among these variables of composts could be established and quantified for predicting their suppressive properties basing on the physicochemical properties and the microbiome.

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Ugo De Corato; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci. Composts from green sources show an increased suppressiveness to soilborne plant pathogenic fungi: Relationships between physicochemical properties, disease suppression, and the microbiome. Crop Protection 2019, 124, 104870 .

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Ugo De Corato, Luigi Patruno, Nicola Avella, Giovanni Lacolla, Giovanna Cucci. Composts from green sources show an increased suppressiveness to soilborne plant pathogenic fungi: Relationships between physicochemical properties, disease suppression, and the microbiome. Crop Protection. 2019; 124 ():104870.

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Ugo De Corato; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci. 2019. "Composts from green sources show an increased suppressiveness to soilborne plant pathogenic fungi: Relationships between physicochemical properties, disease suppression, and the microbiome." Crop Protection 124, no. : 104870.

Articles
Published: 09 May 2019 in Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection
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Microbiomes composition, diversity, and variability into a collection of suppressive composts were investigated for effective biological control of soil-borne phytopathogens. Pyrosequencing resulted be a reliable and faster method for characterizing fungal and bacterial microbiomes into composts derived from a varied feedstock of different composition, origin and provenience. Differences in taxonomic structure assessed by bioinformatics analyses were related to feedstock origin. Green composts derived from agro-waste and agroindustrial co/byproducts provided the most varied microbiomes either related to suppression of Rhizoctonia damping-off in bean and Verticillium wilt in eggplant, either to control of Phytium damping-off in cucumber and Phytophthora root rot in tomato. On the other hand, composted municipal solid wastes and co-composted cow manure with household waste prevalently given a most specific microbiota related to suppression of Fusarium wilt in melon.

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Ugo De Corato. Use of omic approaches for characterizing microbiota from suppressive compost to control soil-borne plant pathogens. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection 2019, 52, 757 -775.

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Ugo De Corato. Use of omic approaches for characterizing microbiota from suppressive compost to control soil-borne plant pathogens. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection. 2019; 52 (7-8):757-775.

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Ugo De Corato. 2019. "Use of omic approaches for characterizing microbiota from suppressive compost to control soil-borne plant pathogens." Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection 52, no. 7-8: 757-775.

Review
Published: 07 January 2019 in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
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The market size of fresh and minimally-processed fruits and vegetables (MPFVs) have grown rapidly in the last years as a result of consumer attitudes change due to their increasing use in prepared mixed salad for fresh, healthy and convenient food. Handling and mechanical operations of cutting and peeling induce injures and release of on-site cellular contents which promote the growth of harmful microbes. Chlorine has been widely adopted in fresh and MPFVs disinfection in washing due to its low cost and high efficacy against a broad spectrum of microorganisms; but, continuous replenishment of chlorine into high organic wash water can promote the formation of suspected carcinogenic compounds. There is a real need to find new alternatives to chlorine to preserve MPFVs quality for longer time. Although several methods and chemicals can be used to achieve similar reduction of microorganism counts without the production of harmful compounds, nor compromising the quality of MPFVs produce, fewer amount of them have gained widespread acceptance by the food industry. The challenge of this work was to give an upgraded level of understanding for producers and retailers to underpin future research directions for a modern food industry in order to resolve existing issues that limit fresh-cut quality and shelf-life. This paper covers a comprehensive review to improve shelf-life and quality of MPFVs, from the traditional technologies toward the most promising advancements.

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Ugo De Corato. Improving the shelf-life and quality of fresh and minimally-processed fruits and vegetables for a modern food industry: A comprehensive critical review from the traditional technologies into the most promising advancements. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 2019, 60, 940 -975.

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Ugo De Corato. Improving the shelf-life and quality of fresh and minimally-processed fruits and vegetables for a modern food industry: A comprehensive critical review from the traditional technologies into the most promising advancements. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 2019; 60 (6):940-975.

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Ugo De Corato. 2019. "Improving the shelf-life and quality of fresh and minimally-processed fruits and vegetables for a modern food industry: A comprehensive critical review from the traditional technologies into the most promising advancements." Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 60, no. 6: 940-975.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Biological Control
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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci. Microbiota from ‘next-generation green compost’ improves suppressiveness of composted Municipal-Solid-Waste to soil-borne plant pathogens. Biological Control 2018, 124, 1 -17.

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Ugo De Corato, Rocco Salimbeni, Agostino De Pretis, Luigi Patruno, Nicola Avella, Giovanni Lacolla, Giovanna Cucci. Microbiota from ‘next-generation green compost’ improves suppressiveness of composted Municipal-Solid-Waste to soil-borne plant pathogens. Biological Control. 2018; 124 ():1-17.

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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Luigi Patruno; Nicola Avella; Giovanni Lacolla; Giovanna Cucci. 2018. "Microbiota from ‘next-generation green compost’ improves suppressiveness of composted Municipal-Solid-Waste to soil-borne plant pathogens." Biological Control 124, no. : 1-17.

Review
Published: 01 May 2018 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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Ugo De Corato; Isabella De Bari; Egidio Viola; Massimo Pugliese. Assessing the main opportunities of integrated biorefining from agro-bioenergy co/by-products and agroindustrial residues into high-value added products associated to some emerging markets: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2018, 88, 326 -346.

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Ugo De Corato, Isabella De Bari, Egidio Viola, Massimo Pugliese. Assessing the main opportunities of integrated biorefining from agro-bioenergy co/by-products and agroindustrial residues into high-value added products associated to some emerging markets: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2018; 88 ():326-346.

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Ugo De Corato; Isabella De Bari; Egidio Viola; Massimo Pugliese. 2018. "Assessing the main opportunities of integrated biorefining from agro-bioenergy co/by-products and agroindustrial residues into high-value added products associated to some emerging markets: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 88, no. : 326-346.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2018 in Food Packaging and Shelf Life
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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Nicolla Avella; Giovanni Patruno. Use of alginate for extending shelf life in a lyophilized yeast-based formulate in controlling green mould disease on citrus fruit under postharvest condition. Food Packaging and Shelf Life 2018, 15, 76 -86.

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Ugo De Corato, Rocco Salimbeni, Agostino De Pretis, Nicolla Avella, Giovanni Patruno. Use of alginate for extending shelf life in a lyophilized yeast-based formulate in controlling green mould disease on citrus fruit under postharvest condition. Food Packaging and Shelf Life. 2018; 15 ():76-86.

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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Nicolla Avella; Giovanni Patruno. 2018. "Use of alginate for extending shelf life in a lyophilized yeast-based formulate in controlling green mould disease on citrus fruit under postharvest condition." Food Packaging and Shelf Life 15, no. : 76-86.

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Published: 22 October 2017 in Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection
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The aim of this work was to assess the potential suppression of three on-farm green composts for controlling seven soil-borne pathogens in container media under greenhouse condition. Suppression of Pythium irregulare and Rhizoctonia solani damping-off of cucumber and bean, Phytophthora cinnamomi and Sclerotinia minor root rot of azalea and lettuce, and Fusarium oxysporum wilt of melon, tomato, and basil was studied on artificially inoculated seedlings. Three feedstocks of bioenergy wastes and agricultural residues were selected, on-farm composted, characterized, and tested for their suppressive properties by in vitro and in vivo experiments in comparison with one commercial compost from municipal solid biowaste. The composts showed differences in the suppressive properties when mixed with sterile peat at dosage of 35%. All green composts meanly suppressed P. irregulare damping-off of cucumber of 80%, R. solani damping-off of bean of 75%, P. cinnamomi root rot of azalea of 65%, and Fusarium wilt of up to 25%. The reference compost suppressed F. oxysporum wilt of melon, tomato, and basil from 60 to 70% and Pythium, Rhizoctonia, and Phytophthora diseases up to 30%. All composts suppressed S. minor root rot of lettuce of 35%. Suppression of Pythium damping-off and Phytophthora root rot was related to the sum of the bioactivities of the fungi and bacteria of compost. Suppression of Rhizoctonia damping-off and F. oxysporum wilt was associated with the specific bioactivity of a restricted number of fungi (Trichoderma, Aspergillus) and bacteria (Pseudomonas, actinomycetes) species. Suppression of Sclerotinia root rot was not related to any one variable of composts.

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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis. Suppression of soil-borne pathogens in container media amended with on-farm composted agro-bioenergy wastes and residues under glasshouse condition. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 2017, 125, 1 -14.

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Ugo De Corato, Rocco Salimbeni, Agostino De Pretis. Suppression of soil-borne pathogens in container media amended with on-farm composted agro-bioenergy wastes and residues under glasshouse condition. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection. 2017; 125 (2):1-14.

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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis. 2017. "Suppression of soil-borne pathogens in container media amended with on-farm composted agro-bioenergy wastes and residues under glasshouse condition." Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 125, no. 2: 1-14.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2017 in Postharvest Biology and Technology
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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Nicolla Avella; Giovanni Patruno. Antifungal activity of crude extracts from brown and red seaweeds by a supercritical carbon dioxide technique against fruit postharvest fungal diseases. Postharvest Biology and Technology 2017, 131, 16 -30.

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Ugo De Corato, Rocco Salimbeni, Agostino De Pretis, Nicolla Avella, Giovanni Patruno. Antifungal activity of crude extracts from brown and red seaweeds by a supercritical carbon dioxide technique against fruit postharvest fungal diseases. Postharvest Biology and Technology. 2017; 131 ():16-30.

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Ugo De Corato; Rocco Salimbeni; Agostino De Pretis; Nicolla Avella; Giovanni Patruno. 2017. "Antifungal activity of crude extracts from brown and red seaweeds by a supercritical carbon dioxide technique against fruit postharvest fungal diseases." Postharvest Biology and Technology 131, no. : 16-30.

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Published: 01 October 2016 in Scientia Horticulturae
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Ugo De Corato; Egidio Viola; Giuseppe Arcieri; Vito Valerio; Francesco Zimbardi. Use of composted agro-energy co-products and agricultural residues against soil-borne pathogens in horticultural soil-less systems. Scientia Horticulturae 2016, 210, 166 -179.

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Ugo De Corato, Egidio Viola, Giuseppe Arcieri, Vito Valerio, Francesco Zimbardi. Use of composted agro-energy co-products and agricultural residues against soil-borne pathogens in horticultural soil-less systems. Scientia Horticulturae. 2016; 210 ():166-179.

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Ugo De Corato; Egidio Viola; Giuseppe Arcieri; Vito Valerio; Francesco Zimbardi. 2016. "Use of composted agro-energy co-products and agricultural residues against soil-borne pathogens in horticultural soil-less systems." Scientia Horticulturae 210, no. : 166-179.