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  1. Dietary Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) Modulates Survival, Growth, Reproductive Behavior, and Spawning Performance in Zebrafish, Danio rerio

    Article • Animals, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  2. Emergence of Autotoxicity in Closed Hydroponic Cultivation of Basil and Its Recovery by Compost Tea Application

    Article • Horticulturae, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  3. Arabidopsis thaliana Roots Exposed to Extracellular Self-DNA: Evidence of Epigenetic Effects

    Article • Epigenomes, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  4. Cell-Free DNA (cfDNA) Regulates Metabolic Remodeling in the ES-2 Ovarian Carcinoma Cell Line, Influencing Cell Proliferation, Quiescence, and Chemoresistance in a Cell-of-Origin-Specific Manner

    Article • Metabolites, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  5. Cell-Free DNA (cfDNA) Regulates Metabolic Remodeling, Sustaining Proliferation, Quiescence, and Migration in MDA-MB-231, a Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma (TNBC) Cell Line

    Article • Metabolites, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  6. Mechanisms and impacts of Agaricus urinascens fairy rings on plant diversity and microbial communities in a montane Mediterranean grassland

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  7. Fungal fairy rings: history, ecology, dynamics and engineering functions

    Article • IMA Fungus, February 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  8. Self-DNA in Caenorhabditis elegans Affects the Production of Specific Metabolites: Evidence from LC-MS and Chemometric Studies

    Article • Molecules, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  9. Extracellular Self-DNA Effects on Yeast Cell Cycle and Transcriptome during Batch Growth

    Article • Biomolecules, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  10. Self-DNA Inhibition in Drosophila melanogaster Development: Metabolomic Evidence of the Molecular Determinants

    Article • Biology, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  11. Dose-dependent positive-to-negative shift of litter effects on seedling growth: a modelling study on 35 plant litter types

    Article • Plant Ecology, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antonio Mingo, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  12. Shifts of Leaf Litter-Induced Plant-Soil Feedback from Negative to Positive Driven by Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis between Quercus ilex and Pisolithus arrhizus

    Article • Microorganisms, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Antonio Saracino, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  13. PhenoCaB: a new phenological model based on carbon balance in boreal conifers

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2023, Wiley

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  14. Plant extracellular self-DNA inhibits growth and induces immunity via the jasmonate signaling pathway

    Article • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  15. Metabolomics and molecular networking analyses in Arabidopsis thaliana show that extracellular self-DNA affects nucleoside/nucleotide cycles with accumulation of cAMP, cGMP and N6-methyl-AMP

    Article • Phytochemistry, December 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  16. NMR Metabolomics and Chemometrics of Lettuce, Lactuca sativa L., under Different Foliar Organic Fertilization Treatments

    Article • Plants, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  17. Field evidence for litter and self‐DNA inhibitory effects on Alnus glutinosa roots

    Article • New Phytologist, August 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  18. Effects of Extracellular Self- and Nonself-DNA on the Freshwater Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and on the Marine Microalga Nannochloropsis gaditana

    Article • Plants, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  19. Self-DNA Exposure Induces Developmental Defects and Germline DNA Damage Response in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Article • Biology, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  20. Arabidopsis thaliana Response to Extracellular DNA: Self Versus Nonself Exposure

    Article • Plants, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  21. One ring to rule them all: an ecosystem engineer fungus fosters plant and microbial diversity in a Mediterranean grassland

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  22. Plant–environment interactions through a functional traits perspective: a review of Italian studies

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Giacomo Puglielli, Professor Alessandro Chiarucci, Dr Simon Pierce, Dr Carlo Ricotta, Giovanni Bacaro, Gabriella Buffa, Sandra Citterio, Dr Rodolfo Gentili, Eleonora Giarrizzo, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni, Dr Adriano AS Stinca, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Giovanna Aronne

  23. Yeast energy balance model explains cell death induction by sugar uptake

    Article • Cell Cycle, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  24. Inhibitory effects of extracellular self-DNA: a general biological process?

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Pasquale Termolino, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  25. New perspectives on the use of nucleic acids in pharmacological applications: inhibitory action of extracellular self-DNA in biological systems

    Article • Phytochemistry Reviews, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Pasquale Termolino, Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni

  26. Plants harm themselves with their own DNA

    Article • New Phytologist, October 2014, Wiley

    Prof. Stefano Mazzoleni, Dr Antonio Mingo, Virginia Lanzotti, Dr. Pasquale Termolino