L’autore ha raccolto dal 2018 riflessioni e documentazione sulla situazione politica italiana, che ha tradotto in questo libretto, nella speranza che il Paese smetta di galleggiare, rompa gli ormeggi e decida di navigare in mare aperto. Scusandosi di errori e manchevolezze - queste ultime a volte volute per rendere snello il testo - si augura che il lettore guardi la luna e non il dito che la mostra.

Kiwifruit is one of the few fruit crops that has been successfully introduced to the marketplace and for which commercial production in several countries has expanded rapidly over the last 50 years. Kiwifruit science and production has advanced significantly during this time, with multiple new green-, yellow- and red-fleshed cultivars being commercialized while moving into the era of genomics, sustainability, digital technology and automation. This book reviews the scientific and technical...

This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characterize this species as a crop, including the genes controlling sugar and starch metabolism, pigment biosynthesis and degradation, the ascorbic-acid pathway, fruit softening and postharvest metabolism...