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Over the next three years, a research team coordinated by Professor Susana Carvalho (with Dr. Tânia Fernandes as Co-PI) will develop sustainable strategies to mitigate the effect of grey mould on strawberry, in the laboratories of GreenUPorto/FCUP, in partnership with the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). In an interview to Diário de Notícias, the researcher explained that the fungal pathogen that causes this disease, Botrytis cinerea, results in drastic production losses and reduces the strawberry shelf life. This was the starting point in the development of the Project “Botrytis-XTalk: eXploring host-fungal crossTalk for early and sustainable control of gray mold”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and briefly explained by its Coordinator here.

08.11.2021.

The recent vertical garden, installed on the Vairão campus, gained European visibility, after being featured on the webpage of the prestigious European research and innovation funding institution European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

In a world undergoing profound changes, in which expressions such as “decarbonization of the economy”, “ecological footprint”, and “circular economy” have become part of everyday life, marked changes in the way we produce and consume have become essential in the debate about the cities we want for the future.

In the week in which circular cities are celebrated, COST went searching for points where these changes are already taking place and found one of them on our campus Vairão.

The vertical garden, installed on the south side of the FCV2 building for agricultural sciences, thus gained European visibility, having been highlighted in the promotional video #Circular Cities Week 2021. Watch the video about circular cities, here.

The Project Strawberry+, developed by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto/GreenUPorto, the company Frulact and the Portuguese Catholic University, and financed by the National Innovation Agency (Portugal 2020), was presented in the radio program “90 seconds of Science”, from Antena 1.

GreenUPorto researcher Susana Carvalho attended the challenge of presenting Strawberry+ in a very brief way, and addressed the main aspects of the project that aims to improve the production of strawberry, within a sustainable perspective.

Access here the podcast dedicated to Strawberry+, and stay with the essentials of this project.

The EW-BIOSENSOR Project, which is being developed within the scope of the IJUP Empresas program and which counts with the participation of the company from the wine sector Sogrape Vinhos SA, was disclosed in the radio program “90 Segundos de Ciência”. In ninety seconds of science dissemination, stay with the essentials of the EW-BIOSENSOR project, through the voice of GreenUPorto researcher, Ruth Pereira. Access the Antena 1 podcast here.

On September 29, researchers from GreenUPorto collaborated with LIPOR in the commemoration of its Open Day. The evaluation of soil quality was the topic of the activity developed with children and adults. While adults learned to measure various indicators of soil quality, the youngest ones have become fascinated with the magnifying glass and with the diversity of soil organisms.