InPP marks National Scientists' Day

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InnovPlantProtect (InPP) is celebrating National Scientists Day 2022, May 16, by challenging its researchers to complete the sentence “A scientist is...”

...someone who gets up in the morning with the desire to discover something new and the perseverance to carry on even when that doesn't happen.

Cristina Azevedo

...a methodical person who is determined to look for small clues and put them together to make it clear what natural phenomena are.

Pedro Rosa

... a tireless explorer.

Miguel Carvalho

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...someone who answers questions about how our Universe works, using experimentation as a way of investigating it, and who establishes verifiable theories about how it works.

Pedro February

...someone who finds answers to questions that may only be of interest to a niche group of people or, on the other hand, contribute to the maintenance of the human species, namely by finding solutions to guarantee food for the world's growing population, as we try to do every day at InPP. Regardless of the “size” of the issue, being a scientist is always a huge challenge.

Cláudia Rato da Silva

... the deeper reality of the superficial physical occurrence. In this context, one of my most recent works{ explores the specific adaptations of symptomatic and asymptomatic vines to esca, a disease as old as vine growing!

Rupesh Singh

*Goufo, P., Singh, R. K. and Cortez, I. (2021) Metabolites Differentiating Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Grapevine Plants (Vitis vinifera L ‘Malvasia-Fina’) Infected with Esca Complex Disease-Associated Fungi. Biol. Life Sci. Forum 2022, 11(1), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/IECPS2021-11923