Silvia Galafassi

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the main aspects concerning microplastics pollution sources in lakes and rivers, with a focus on freshwater sediments as a site of accumulation and as the habitat of benthic organisms.

TL;DR: R. graminis appears to be a suitable candidate for fermentation processes involving renewable resources, and is able to resist some of the inhibitors commonly released during hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials.

TL;DR: This review tries to exhaustively enumerate all the possible sources of plastic litter that have been identified so far and to report quantitative assessments of their inputs on microplastics pollution to natural environments reported in scientific and grey literature, with an emphasis on surface waters.

TL;DR: It is shown that the Dekkera bruxellensis lineage, which separated from the Saccharomyces yeasts more than 200 mya, also efficiently makes, accumulates and consumes ethanol and acetic acid.

TL;DR: Brettanomyces/Dekkera yeasts have clear potential for further development for industrial processes aimed at production of ethanol from renewable sources, such as oxygen-limited and low-pH conditions.