Decreased antimicrobial efficiency has become a global public health issue. The paucity of
new antibacterial drugs is evident, and the arsenal against infectious diseases needs to be …

Biofilms constitute the predominant microbial style of life in natural and engineered
ecosystems. Facing harsh environmental conditions, microorganisms accumulate reactive …

Bioaerosol exposure is associated with health problems. The aim of this study is to evaluate
whether it is possible to assess the risks posed by waste collection workers' exposure …

The marine seagrasses form an ecological and therefore paraphyletic group of marine
hydrophilus angiosperms which evolved three to four times from land plants towards an …

Fungi have major, negative socioeconomic impacts, but control with bioactive agents is
increasingly restricted, while resistance is growing. Here, we describe an alternative fungal …

The global food supply has been facing increasing challenges during the first decades of the
21 st century. Disease in plants is an important constraint to worldwide crop production …

Salt tolerance of halophytes relies on several strategies, among them, the production of
species-specific secondary metabolites. Chemically, a broad variety of secondary …

Natural products with a sulfated scaffold have emerged as antifouling agents with low or
nontoxic effects to the environment. In this study 13 sulfated polyphenols were synthesized …

The seagrass phyllosphere consists of a dynamic mosaic of physico-chemical
microgradients that modulate light harvesting, gas and nutrient exchange between the …

Marine biofouling has gnawed both mobile and non-mobile marine structures since time
immemorial, leading to the deterioration of designed operational capabilities as well as a …