Ilaria Di Lelio

This study examines how a tomato-derived peptide affects the phyllosphere microbiome and plant defense, finding shifts in bacterial communities and functional profiles linked to defense activation.

This paper demonstrates that simultaneous silencing of intestinal nucleases and a vital gene via dsRNA feeding significantly improves RNAi efficiency and mortality in Mediterranean fruit fly adults.

This study shows that truncated prosystemin promotes defense in tomato plants through a hormone-independent pathway involving oligogalacturonides, suggesting prosystemin has multiple roles beyond its role as a Systemin precursor.