Basil Downy Mildew (BDM), caused by the oomycete Peronospora belbahrii, is a major issue for sweet basil ( Ocimum basilicum L.) production worldwide. Currently, the disease is mainly controlled by chemical fungicides, but the development of populations of the pathogen which are resistant to the most widely used compounds is leading to the research of alternative crop protection strategies. Therefore, in this paper, some croppi...

Baseline port monitoring for fouling communities is an essential tool to assess non-indigenous species (NIS) introduction and spread, but a standardized and coordinated method among Mediterranean and European countries has not yet been adopted. In this context, it is important to test monitoring protocols that allow for the collection of standardized and directly comparable data, replicated across time and space. Here, for the...

An anthurid isopod new to the Mediterranean Sea has recently been observed in samples from three localities of the Italian coast: the Lagoon of Venice (North Adriatic Sea), La Spezia (Ligurian Sea) and Olbia (Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea). The specimens collected showed strong affinity to a species originally described from the NW Pacific Ocean: Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909. The comparison with specimens collected from the...