Anna Benedetti

TL;DR: In this paper, a selection of microbiological methods that are already applied in regional or national soil quality monitoring programs is presented, divided into two parts: part one gives an overview of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality; part two provides a selection, which are described in sufficient detail to use the book as a practical handbook in the laboratory.

TL;DR: The multimodal approach utilized in this work may be applied in long-term field studies aimed at monitoring the real hazard of genetically modified crops and their residues on nontarget soil microbial communities.

TL;DR: It emerged that a patchy saline soil can not contain just a single microbial community selected to withstand extreme osmotic phenomena, but many communities that can be variously correlated to one or more environmental parameters.

TL;DR: It is important to underline that the public debate about antibiotic resistant genes in transgenic plants should not divert the attention from the real causes of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, such as the continued abuse and overuse of antibiotics prescribed by physicians and in animal husbandry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used thermal analysis for a quick characterisation of chemical changes in the organic matter of composted materials and found that the ratio between the mass losses associated with the two main exothermic reactions (R1 and R2) showed a good sensitivity in detecting the change in the level of stabilisation during the composting process.