Diego Rivera

TL;DR: Four candidate Azotobacter strains were evaluated, and the two most tolerant to salinity (C5 and C9) were selected for further studies and were phylogenetically related to AzOTobacter chroococcum based on their 16S rDNA sequences.

TL;DR: It is argued that the culinary use of wild gathered weedy greens evolved together with the neolithization process, since this offered the necessary ecological niches for them to thrive, thereby enriching and securing the diets of European agriculturalists.

TL;DR: Simple principles applied in a systematic way and used together with open-access reference resources could help authors, referees and editors of ethnopharmacological, phytochemical, toxicological and clinical studies to reduce ambiguity about the identity and name of the species involved and thus significantly improve the quality of the final publication.

TL;DR: The ethnopharmacology of Madeira and Porto Santo Islands is extremely interesting because of the cultural and biogeographic features of this region, which make it a centre of medicinal plant diversity.

TL;DR: The in vitro observed modulations and effects exerted by extracts derived from local food plants suggest that these plants may contribute to the observed better aging of rural Mediterranean populations.