/library/oar/handle/123456789/378 2025-12-22T14:13:18Z 2025-12-22T14:13:18Z Dobránszki, Judit Vassileva, Valya Agius, Dorita Moschou, Panagiotis Nikolaou Gallusci, Philippe Berger, Margot M. J. Farkas, Dóra Basso, Marcos Fernando Martinelli, Federico /library/oar/handle/123456789/136669 2025-06-26T09:31:10Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Gaining insights into epigenetic memories through artificial intelligence and omics science in plants Authors: Dobránszki, Judit; Vassileva, Valya; Agius, Dorita; Moschou, Panagiotis Nikolaou; Gallusci, Philippe; Berger, Margot M. J.; Farkas, Dóra; Basso, Marcos Fernando; Martinelli, Federico Abstract: Plants exhibit remarkable abilities to learn, communicate, memorize, and develop stimulus-dependent decision-making circuits. Unlike animals, plant memory is uniquely rooted in cellular, molecular, and biochemical networks, lacking specialized organs for these functions. Consequently, plants can effectively learn and respond to diverse challenges, becoming used to recurring signals. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent the new frontiers of biological sciences, offering the potential to predict crop behavior under environmental stresses associated with climate change. Epigenetic mechanisms, serving as the foundational blueprints of plant memory, are crucial in regulating plant adaptation to environmental stimuli. They achieve this adaptation by modulating chromatin structure and accessibility, which contribute to gene expression regulation and allow plants to adapt dynamically to changing environmental conditions. In this review, we describe novel methods and approaches in AI and ML to elucidate how plant memory occurs in response to environmental stimuli and priming mechanisms. Furthermore, we explore innovative strategies exploiting transgenerational memory for plant breeding to develop crops resilient to multiple stresses. In this context, AI and ML can aid in integrating and analyzing epigenetic data of plant stress responses to optimize the training of the parental plants.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Dobránszki, Judit Agius, Dorita Berger, Margot M.J. Moschou, Panagiotis N. Gallusci, Philippe Martinelli, Federico /library/oar/handle/123456789/129223 2024-11-25T07:02:50Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Plant memory and communication of encounters Authors: Dobránszki, Judit; Agius, Dorita; Berger, Margot M.J.; Moschou, Panagiotis N.; Gallusci, Philippe; Martinelli, Federico Abstract: Plants can communicate with each other and other living organisms in a very sophisticated manner. They use biological molecules and even physical cues to establish a molecular dialogue with beneficial organisms as well as with their predators and pathogens. Several studies were recently published that explore how plants communicate with each other about their previous encounters or stressful experiences. However, there is an almost complete lack of knowledge about how these intra- and interspecies communications are directly regulated at the epigenetic level. In this perspective article we provide new hypotheses for the possible epigenetic modifications that regulate plant responses at the communication level.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Boudot, Jean-Pierre Degabriele, Godwin /library/oar/handle/123456789/124307 2024-07-05T07:55:59Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ischnura genei (Rambur, 1842) Authors: Boudot, Jean-Pierre; Degabriele, Godwin Abstract: Distribution World: Ischnura genei is an insular species endemic to the western Mediterranean.; Europe: Ischnura genei is endemic to the Tuscan archipelago and the Tyrrhenian and Maltese islands, and is common and widespread within its range. It is absent from mainland Europe and replaces I. elegans on the above islands, except in Giglio where both species cohabit. A male and female were caught on the Italian island of Linosa, between the Maltese islands and the Tunisian coast, in 2010 (Corso et al. 2012). Whether they belonged to a local population breeding in the few man-made water tanks present on the island or were vagrants is unknown.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Degabriele, Godwin Cavalleri, Adriano Goldarazena, Arturo Mifsud, David /library/oar/handle/123456789/124306 2024-07-05T07:52:50Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Terebrantia (Insecta : Thysanoptera) of the Maltese Islands Authors: Degabriele, Godwin; Cavalleri, Adriano; Goldarazena, Arturo; Mifsud, David Abstract: Thirty-nine species of terebrantian Thysanoptera belonging to four families and 22 genera are here recorded from the Maltese Islands. Of these, 33 represent new records to this archipelago. Thrips were collected from 65 different locations over a seven-year period, covering the main habitat types found across the Maltese Islands, namely steppe, garigue, maquis and woodland, but also sand dunes and saltmarshes as well as roadsides, private and public gardens, greenhouses and cultivated fields. An illustrated dichotomous key to identify the Terebrantia of the Maltese Islands is presented. Chorological data for the species researched in the current study shows that the majority of these insects are of a European Mediterranean origin, though the geographical distribution of some of them extends to Africa and the Middle East. Seven species associated with agricultural commodities were found to be of alien origin; however they were locally found in small numbers and do not pose a threat to horticulture.

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