The bacterial communities of Tuber aestivum: preliminary investigations in Molise region, Southern Italy

Geotourism represents a powerful and new form of sustainable tourism that has rapidly expanded worldwide over the last decades. To promote it, the use of digital and geomatic tools is becoming of increasing importance. Especially mobile information represents one of the most efficient and smart ways to bring geotourism closer to a wide audience. This applies in particular to rural and inner areas, where the exploitation of geoheritage can represent a crucial resource for eco-friendly and sustainable tourism development. With the aim to promote geotourism on a regional scale, we have implemented a mobile devise application for Molise region, tested in the Alto Molise area. This application, called MoGeo App, aims at providing diversified geotourism information that combines geologic attractions (geosites and geologic itineraries) with other possible tourist attractions (other sites of natural and cultural interest), to respond to differentiated interests and needs of a wide audience. Besides geotourism purposes, the structure of MoGeo App can be used also for other purposes such as educational targets, by adapting contents and language. It appears to be a flexible, easily updatable digital tool, adaptable to various target groups, as well as other regional contexts, both inside and outside of Italy.

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Stone Tools in the High Molise Mountains (Italy): a first Report

Journal of Lithic Studies ◽

10.2218/jls.2928 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Vittorio Mironti ◽

Melissa Vilmercati ◽

Enrico Lucci ◽

Rachele Modesto

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Southern Italy ◽

Raw Material ◽

Human Occupation ◽

Lithic Assemblage ◽

Archaeological Materials ◽

Material Procurement ◽

Mountainous Landscape ◽

Molise Region ◽

University Of Rome

In the last decades, several researches focused on the inland areas of Molise Region (Central-Southern Italy) to investigate the occupation and exploitation of this environment during Pleistocene and Holocene. The “Molise Survey Project” started in 2015 with the aim to explore, through systematic surveys, an area of 60 square kilometres, chiefly characterized by a mountainous landscape and part of the Central-Southern Italy Apennines. The project seeks to investigate the patterns of human occupation in the mountainous landscape between the provinces of Campobasso and Isernia. The surveys, carried out during the last four years, allowed the identification of 19 prehistoric sites ranging from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: the archaeological materials belonging to the latter period are being studied by the team of “Paletnologia” of Sapienza University of Rome. This work aims to show the preliminary results of the analysis of the lithic assemblage acquired during the summer of 2016 surveys, focusing on raw material procurement and the related chaîne opératoire, also considering post-depositional agents. The obtained data allowed to reassess the human presence over inland and high-altitude areas of Molise during prehistoric times, stressing a seasonal use of the territory, from Palaeolithic to Late Prehistory, with different patterns of occupation and exploitation.

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Ground motion models for the Molise region (Southern Italy)

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.06.001 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 198-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

P. Morasca ◽

F. Zolezzi ◽

D. Spallarossa ◽

L. Luzi

Keyword(s):

Ground Motion ◽

Southern Italy ◽

Motion Models ◽

Molise Region ◽

Ground Motion Models

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Comparison of bacterial communities in roots of selected trees with and without summer truffle (Tuber aestivum) ectomycorrhiza

Folia Forestalia Polonica ◽

10.2478/ffp-2021-0011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 97-111

Author(s):

Marta Siebyła ◽

Iwona Szyp-Borowska

Keyword(s):

Next Generation Sequencing ◽

Bacterial Communities ◽

Bacterial Species ◽

Tuber Aestivum ◽

Bacterial Composition ◽

Next Generation Sequencing Ngs ◽

And Control ◽

Sanger Method ◽

Generation Sequencing ◽

Control Samples

Abstract In this study, we examined the effect of the presence of mycorrhiza and ascomata of summer truffle (Tuber aestivum) on the bacterial composition of roots from small trees growing in selected sites of the Nida Basin. Qualitative DNA sequencing methods such as Sanger and next-generation sequencing (NGS) were used. The Sanger method revealed different bacterial species compositions between the samples where summer truffle ascomata was recorded and control samples. Five genera of bacteria could be distinguished: Bacillus, Erwinia, Pseudomonas, Rahnella and Serratia, among which the most numerous were Pseudomonas (Gammmaproteobacteria class) at 32.9%. The results obtained by the NGS method also showed differences in species composition of the bacteria depending on the study sample. Seven genera of bacteria were distinguished: Rhizorhabdus, Methylotenera, Sphingomonas, Nitrosospira, Streptomyces, Methyloceanibacter and Niastella, which dominated in roots from the truffle sites. Telmatobacter, Roseiarcus, Granulicella, Paludibaculum, Acidipila, Acidisphaera and Aliidongia dominated in roots from the control sites. With the NGS method, it is possible to identify the microbiome of a whole root, while only a root fragment can be analysed by the Sanger method. These results extend the scope of knowledge on the preferences of certain groups of bacteria associated with truffles and their influence on the formation of ascomata in summer truffles. Our results may also be useful in selecting and monitoring sites that promote ascomata of Tuber aestivum.

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