We appreciate the comments of Alcántara et al. (2021), which have allowed us to clarify the doubts about our data analysis and correct some errors in our article (Beretta-Blanco and Carrasco-Letelier, 2021).
ABSTRACT - Cropland expansion has been occurring over the last century, especially in South America, displacing non-crop areas mainly with soybean. Changes at a landscape level were followed by changes at a local scale, such as the adoption of insect-resistant transgenic crops. The homogenization of agroecosystem composition and agronomic practices have a great impact on arthropod predators and herbivore insects, which has not been quantified to a great extent in South America.
ABSTRACT.- Nitro-fatty acids (NO2-FAs) are being formed in virgin olive oil (VOO), exhibiting pleiotropic anti-inflammatory responses. We analyzed the fatty acid profile, polyphenols, pigments, and NO2-FA levels in two contrasting olive cultivars, Arbequina and Coratina, under two ripening conditions. During in vitro gastric conditions, the extent of nitro-conjugated linoleic acid and nitro-oleic acid in Coratina VOO was higher at the intermediate stage. In contrast, Arbequina VOO did not present changes on NO2-FA formation.
ABSTRACT.- Nitro-fatty acids (NO2-FAs) are being formed in virgin olive oil (VOO), exhibiting pleiotropic anti-inflammatory responses. We analyzed the fatty acid profile, polyphenols, pigments, and NO2-FA levels in two contrasting olive cultivars, Arbequina and Coratina, under two ripening conditions. During in vitro gastric conditions, the extent of nitro-conjugated linoleic acid and nitro-oleic acid in Coratina VOO was higher at the intermediate stage. In contrast, Arbequina VOO did not present changes on NO2-FA formation.
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing concern in public health and current research shows an important role for bacterial biofilms in recurrent or chronic infections. New strategies, therefore, are necessary to overcome antimicrobial resistance, through the development of new therapies that could alter or inhibit biofilm formation. In this sense, antibiofilm natural products are very promising. In this work, a bioprospection of antimicrobial and antibiofilm extracts from Uruguayan soil bacteria and insect gut bacteria was carried out.
Red-banded stink bug Piezodorus guildinii (P. guildinii) has been described as the most damaging stink bug regarding soybean crops, leading to seed injury, low germination percentages, and foliar retention, at low population densities. In recent years, RNA interference (RNAi), a conserved eukaryote silencing mechanism has been explored to develop species-selective pesticides. In this work, we evaluated RNAi in P. guildinii to develop new pest-control strategies. For this, we assembled and annotated a P. guildinii transcriptome from a pool of all developmental stages.