KEY WORDS: Circular Economy, Botanicals, sustainable production of cosmetic and nutraceutical actives, Biodiversity.
RELEVANT FUNDED ONGOING PROJECTS
1. Towards a sustainable organic nursery chain: micropropagation of species for biodiversity and for organic agri-food and optimization of the use of biostimulants with active substances from processing byproducts for organic nurseries» (FSE DGR 553/2023 of Regione Veneto), with the University of Padua and other partners.
2. Use of pruning residues from heroic agriculture in Pantelleria: sustainable extraction of polyphenols with high biological activity: funded by Next Generation Europe
3. Editing of a white paper on regulation of innovative botanicals vs current Novel food regulation. funded by Next Generation Europe through the National Biodiversity Future Center ( https://www.nbfc.it/en)

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Botanics
Crop Production
Crop Science
Plant Biotechnology
Plant Selection

Our Project: Valorization of the endemic species from Pantelleria island: selection, germoplasm conservation, and potential application in different fields (cosmetics and nutraceutical) from circular economy perspective.
We are looking for partners with at least one of the following expertise: phytochemicals characterization (i.e. metabolomic analysis), germoplasm conservation, biological activity tests, in vitro and ex vivo tests , clinical test (microbiome) on botanicals ingredients.

mediterranean plant biodiversity, pantelleria, circular economy, biosolution, germoplasm conservation, island biodiversity conservation, botanical ingredient

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