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Sustainable Exploitation of Posidonia oceanica Sea Balls (Egagropili): A Review

Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile is the main seagrass plant in the Mediterranean basin that forms huge underwater meadows. Its leaves, when decomposed, are transported to the coasts, where they create huge banquettes that protect the beaches from sea erosion. Its roots and rhizome fragments, instead,...

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Autores principales: Restaino, Odile Francesca, Giosafatto, Concetta Valeria L., Mirpoor, Seyedeh Fatemeh, Cammarota, Marcella, Hejazi, Sondos, Mariniello, Loredana, Schiraldi, Chiara, Porta, Raffaele
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37108463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087301
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author Restaino, Odile Francesca
Giosafatto, Concetta Valeria L.
Mirpoor, Seyedeh Fatemeh
Cammarota, Marcella
Hejazi, Sondos
Mariniello, Loredana
Schiraldi, Chiara
Porta, Raffaele
author_facet Restaino, Odile Francesca
Giosafatto, Concetta Valeria L.
Mirpoor, Seyedeh Fatemeh
Cammarota, Marcella
Hejazi, Sondos
Mariniello, Loredana
Schiraldi, Chiara
Porta, Raffaele
author_sort Restaino, Odile Francesca
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description Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile is the main seagrass plant in the Mediterranean basin that forms huge underwater meadows. Its leaves, when decomposed, are transported to the coasts, where they create huge banquettes that protect the beaches from sea erosion. Its roots and rhizome fragments, instead, aggregate into fibrous sea balls, called egagropili, that are shaped and accumulated by the waves along the shoreline. Their presence on the beach is generally disliked by tourists, and, thus, local communities commonly treat them as waste to remove and discard. Posidonia oceanica egagropili might represent a vegetable lignocellulose biomass to be valorized as a renewable substrate to produce added value molecules in biotechnological processes, as bio-absorbents in environmental decontamination, to prepare new bioplastics and biocomposites, or as insulating and reinforcement materials for construction and building. In this review, the structural characteristics, and the biological role of Posidonia oceanica egagropili are described, as well as their applications in different fields as reported in scientific papers published in recent years.
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spelling pubmed-101389332023-04-28 Sustainable Exploitation of Posidonia oceanica Sea Balls (Egagropili): A Review Restaino, Odile Francesca Giosafatto, Concetta Valeria L. Mirpoor, Seyedeh Fatemeh Cammarota, Marcella Hejazi, Sondos Mariniello, Loredana Schiraldi, Chiara Porta, Raffaele Int J Mol Sci Review Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile is the main seagrass plant in the Mediterranean basin that forms huge underwater meadows. Its leaves, when decomposed, are transported to the coasts, where they create huge banquettes that protect the beaches from sea erosion. Its roots and rhizome fragments, instead, aggregate into fibrous sea balls, called egagropili, that are shaped and accumulated by the waves along the shoreline. Their presence on the beach is generally disliked by tourists, and, thus, local communities commonly treat them as waste to remove and discard. Posidonia oceanica egagropili might represent a vegetable lignocellulose biomass to be valorized as a renewable substrate to produce added value molecules in biotechnological processes, as bio-absorbents in environmental decontamination, to prepare new bioplastics and biocomposites, or as insulating and reinforcement materials for construction and building. In this review, the structural characteristics, and the biological role of Posidonia oceanica egagropili are described, as well as their applications in different fields as reported in scientific papers published in recent years. MDPI 2023-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10138933/ /pubmed/37108463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087301 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Giosafatto, Concetta Valeria L.
Mirpoor, Seyedeh Fatemeh
Cammarota, Marcella
Hejazi, Sondos
Mariniello, Loredana
Schiraldi, Chiara
Porta, Raffaele
Sustainable Exploitation of Posidonia oceanica Sea Balls (Egagropili): A Review
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title_short Sustainable Exploitation of Posidonia oceanica Sea Balls (Egagropili): A Review
title_sort sustainable exploitation of posidonia oceanica sea balls (egagropili): a review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37108463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087301
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