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NEWS

InPP featured in Frutas, legumes e flores magazine

April 14, 2025
Blog, News
Ines Ferreira

In the March issue of Fruits, vegetables and flowers you will find the opinion article entitled “The role of InnovPlantProtect in Organic Farming: Paths to sustainable and efficient solutions”, in which the executive director of InnovPlantProtect (InPP), António Saraiva, reveals how our CoLAB is contributing to the success of organic farming.

“By boosting research, collaboration and knowledge sharing, InPP is helping to solve the central challenges of this practice [organic farming], allowing it to expand and enhancing the supply of agricultural products to consumers. The solutions developed by InPP make organic farming a more viable option for producers,” says the executive director.

Read the full article and find out how we are shaping the future of agriculture.

We thank Frutas, legumes e flores magazine for its recognition and reiterate our commitment to the agriculture of the future.

Smart Vineyards: AI helps monitor vine health and fight green leafhopper

April 10, 2025
Blog, News
Ines Ferreira

Imagine a future where drones and artificial intelligence work together to protect your vineyards. That's what the AI4Leafhopper project is making a reality!

Manisha Sirsat, a researcher on the AI4Leafhopper team, has developed two artificial intelligence models that analyze the aerial images captured by our latest generation drone... and these models make it possible:

geolocation of each vine
to know if there are vine failures
quickly identify “sick” vines”
optimize the application of treatments

The result? Growers can have a detailed view of the health of their vineyards, detect problems early and make more informed decisions.

Find out all about it here.

AI4Leafhopper is a project led by InPP and funded by the ICAERUS Horizon Europe program, which began in April 2024 and ended on April 30 with a final meeting involving the six European projects approved in the 1st edition of the ICAERUS program's PULL applications. The project team presented the AI-based models for detecting and monitoring the impact of the green leafhopper on vineyards.

Green leafhopper from the sky: Drones can help reveal the pest's impact on vineyards!

April 3, 2025
Blog, News
Ines Ferreira

The AI4Leafhopper project, InnovPlantProtect used a state-of-the-art drone to monitor the impact of the green leafhopper in the vineyards of our partners Reynolds Wine Growers and João Portugal Ramos. Although the results show that this advanced technology is more effective at detecting attacks at advanced stages, we are excited about the potential of this tool to provide valuable data for the management of this harmful insect.

We believe that with more research, we can refine our solution to detect early attacks and prevent significant damage to vineyards. Transforming the monitoring of this pest is where we want to go, always with the aim of protecting vineyards and guaranteeing the quality of production for winegrowers.

Over the next few days we'll be revealing everything that the AI4Leafhopper project is making a reality and how drones and artificial intelligence are working together to create a more sustainable future for viticulture. Stay tuned!

Find out all about it here.

AI4Leafhopper, funded by the ICAERUS Horizon Europe program, which began in April 2024, is now in its final stages. The development phase of the project, which took place in the field, is now over and the final stage is to present the solutions developed by our team on Portuguese soil to the market.

EVENTS

EFSA visits InnovPlantProtect

April 10, 2024
Blog
Ines Ferreira

This Wednesday, April 10, InnovPlantProtect (InPP) was visited by members of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

The visit to the city of Elvense was intended to take stock of the implementation of the XVectors.pt project, being carried out at the InPP and funded by EFSA.

The project aims to study the biology of insect vectors of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in Portugal, such as foam leafhoppers, one of the main insect vectors of the bacterium, which plays a key role in its spread in Europe.

InPP's executive director, Pedro Fevereiro, the director of the Pest and Disease Monitoring and Diagnosis department, Ilaria Marengo, and researchers Nuno Faria and Hadi Sheikhnejad, welcomed the team and explained the development of the XVectorspt project.

During the visit there was also the opportunity to see the facilities and technological equipment at #CoLAB and talk to some of our researchers.

Special thanks to EFSA for the visit!

More information about the project here.

Image credits: ©️InnovPlantProtect - Inês Ferreira

SP6 of the Algae Vertical project will be on a screen near you!

April 5, 2024
Blog
Ines Ferreira

This weekend the SP6 - Agriculture sub-project of the project Vertical Algae, led by InnovPlantProtect (InPP), will be featured in another episode of the TECH3 series on RTP 3.

The new episode of the documentary series Algae Vertical will be broadcast on Saturday, April 6, at 6:50 p.m., with a repeat on Sunday at 3:50 p.m. It will be dedicated exclusively to agriculture and will show proposals for sustainable agricultural solutions based on biofertilizers and biopesticides created from algae biomass.

The InPP team, of course, will be in the spotlight in this episode. Excellent work from researchers Miguel Claro, Cláudia Rato da Silva, Sandra Caeiro, Francisca Rodrigues and João Colaço, and department directors Cristina Azevedo and Sandra Correia.

The program will also be available on RTP Play and on the YouTube from Algae Vertical.

Don't miss out!

Vertical Algae is co-financed by Next Generation EU, through the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), and is the largest initiative of the Blue Bioeconomy Agenda Pact.

Note: RTP3 programming may change without prior notice.

InPP moderates workshop on intellectual property and the development of new plant varieties

April 3, 2024
Blog
Ines Ferreira

The Biotechnology Information Center (CiB) promotes Intellectual property & development of new plant varieties“ workshop” on the day April 8th, among the 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., no ITQB NOVA, in Oeiras.

The wokshop aims to disseminate information related to breeder's rights and patents in plants and will have four guest speakers who will analyze and debate issues such as the limitations of current legislation, the proposed regulation of New Genomic Techniques and how it will affect breeder's rights and the obtaining of new plant varieties.

The panel of experts includes Paula Garcia, Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Food and Veterinary (DGAV), Inês Cristóvão Silva, Head of the Patents and Utility Models Department at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Ana Barradas, Director of the Research and Development Department at Fertiprado, and Jorge Canhoto, researcher, Professor at the University of Coimbra and President of CiB.

InPP's executive director, Pedro Fevereiro, will moderate.

Participation in the event is free, but subject to registration.

See the full program in the image below.

More information and registration on the CiB website here.