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InnovPlantProtect launches new website to mark 7 years of activity

January 24, 2026
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Ines Ferreira

O InnovPlantProtect (InPP), Collaborative Laboratory specializing in biological and digital solutions for crop protection, aligned with the emerging challenges of agriculture, will launch its new institutional website on January 24th, on a symbolic date marking 7 years working in the agricultural sector.

This launch is part of a phase of institutional evolution and consolidation InPP, reinforcing its strategy of proximity to the sector, clarity in the communication of its competencies and affirmation as a strategic partner for companies, producers, associations and public bodies.

An even clearer, more up-to-date and sector-oriented platform

With a renewed structure and a more intuitive browsing experience, the new website features:

an area of Services and Products completely reorganized, which facilitates access to specialized services, laboratory capabilities and biological and digital solutions developed by InPP, as well as to a updated catalog of services and biosolutions;
more complete institutional content that reinforces transparency, scientific rigor and CoLAB's mission;
a clearer presentation of scientific skills and research areas, highlighting the impact of the work carried out by InPP's multidisciplinary teams.

New image, same mission - but reinforced

The launch of the website is accompanied by the implementation of InnovPlantProtect's new visual identity, This reflects the maturity of CoLAB and its future ambitions.

The new image - accompanied by the slogan “Innovate together. Protect better.” - reflects InPP's ongoing commitment to:

Developing new generation biological and digital solutions;
Promoting safer, more innovative and more productive agriculture;
Strengthen collaboration and partnership with the agricultural sector and the innovation ecosystem.

A new phase for InPP

The digital and visual renovation is part of a broader strategy of maturity and consolidation, Through this initiative, InPP aims to strengthen its role as a scientific and technological partner for the agricultural sector in applied research and the development of crop protection solutions.

According to António Saraiva, InPP's executive director: “This new website isn't just a digital revamp - it's a reflection of the ambition we have for our future and how we want to communicate with the sector. We want every visitor to understand the purpose that drives us: to create innovative solutions that protect crops, boost productivity and contribute to more sustainable agricultural systems. InPP is entering a new phase, with a clearer, more accessible identity aligned with the real needs of agriculture and a renewed commitment to real impact on the ground.”

Available from January 24th

The new InnovPlantProtect website will be available from January 24th at: https://iplantprotect.pt/

2026 begins with new InnovPlantProtect features

January 16, 2026
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Ines Ferreira

The start of a new year also marks a new cycle for InnovPlantProtect. In 2026, InPP enters a phase of evolution and consolidation, with several new features that reinforce its position as a strategic partner for the intelligent transformation of agriculture.

Over the next few months, initiatives, content and tools will be presented that reflect the work carried out by our teams in the areas of applied research, biological solutions, specialized services and digital innovation.

The first step in this new phase will be presented in the next January 24th, InnovPlantProtect is celebrating the date 7 years in business at the service of the agricultural sector.

Until then, we continue to prepare a range of new products that reflect our mission to promote safer, more innovative and more productive agriculture.

Stay tuned. What's coming is just the beginning.

Sustainability that Generates Value: InPP debates the role of ESG in the future of the fruit and vegetable sector

December 3, 2025
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Ines Ferreira

InnovPlantProtect (InPP) was present at the conference “Building value together”, organized by our associate FNOP - National Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers' Organizations.

InPP's executive director, António Saraiva, moderated the panel “Sustainability that generates value: The role of ESG in the future of the sector”, which included interventions from Catarina Pinto Correia (VdA), Cristina Câmara (APED), Filipa Saldanha (Crédito Agrícola), Joana Oom de Sousa (Sovena) and Rui Veríssimo Baptista (Companhia das Lezírias).

The opening session was given by Domingos dos Santos, president of FNOP and a member of CoLAB's Board of Directors of our CoLAB.

The meeting brought together producer organizations, farmers, companies, experts and political decision-makers to discuss the current challenges and look to the future of the national fruit and vegetable sector.

With the participation of national and international experts, the conference was a privileged space for sharing experiences and strategic reflection, focusing on the organization of production and the role of public policies in promoting sustainable growth.

Congratulations to FNOP for the initiative and the ability to bring together a panel of excellent speakers, making this conference a relevant and topical milestone for the sector.

Image credits: Voz do Campo magazine

EVENTS

Real-time data collection and mapping of yellow rust

March 4, 2021
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Ines Ferreira

Wheat is a crop of great importance for human nutrition around the world. Due to climate change, the Puccinia striiformis tritici (Pst), the fungus that causes yellow rust on wheat, has developed the ability to overcome the plant's defenses. The spores of the fungus spread by aerial dispersal and can reach thousands of kilometers.

Consequently, the rust disease is transboundary and must therefore be dealt with internationally. Around the world, there are several institutions (CIMMYT, ICARDA, GRRC) and initiatives (RustWatch, RustTracker, Globalrust) committed to solving this problem by improving disease diagnostic tools, building new online research and communication infrastructures to share knowledge.

InPP's Crop Protection and Monitoring and Diagnostics Departments are working together, and in collaboration with RustWatch, to fill gaps in the data on the epidemiology of yellow rust, in order to understand the special dynamics of the disease and build an early warning system (EWS).

The form developed by InPP for ODK Collect makes it easier for producers to collect data in the field.

The Monitoring and Diagnostics Department has developed a form for a mobile application (ODK Collect), through which wheat growers can easily collect data in the field. This information will be fed in real time into a spatial database and a map of sampling sites, published from a webGIS service ad hoc.

To this end, we are also instructing producers on how to use the application and access the maps from the webGIS service. Paulo Velez, from Cersul - Agrupamento de Produtores de Cereais do Sul, was the first to receive the training. Thank you very much for your participation!

See one teaser of our tutorial for accessing app and forms here.

XfSTOP goes ahead with olive tree sampling to isolate endophytes

March 4, 2021
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Ines Ferreira

As part of the XfSTOP project, led by InnovPlantProtect's New Biopesticides Department, which aims to use biological control tools to manage the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in olive groves, members of the team that makes up this department went on a field trip to Herdade de Reguengo, belonging to INIAV, in Elvas, on February 10th.

With the help of INIAV researchers Rocio Calderón-Arias and António Cordeiro, the InPP team collected olive tree samples of different varieties (Leccino, Cobrançosa and Arbequina), making it possible to optimize protocols for the isolation of symbiotic bacteria that live inside olive trees, the endophytes.

These endophytes, inhabitants of the same ecological niche as the Xylella, The endophyte will be used to produce our biopesticide, explains Cristina Azevedo, director of the Department. The idea is to reintroduce the endophyte into the olive tree, which represents a sustainable way of producing a growth inhibitor for Xylella.

Researchers from InPP and INIAV collect olive tree samples at Herdade de Reguengo.

InPP identified in European report on bioeconomy in Portugal

March 3, 2021
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Ines Ferreira

The Bio-based Industries Consortium has appointed InnovPlantProtect as the CoLab at the forefront of Portugal's bid to become a leader in the European Green Deal.

InnovPlantProtect is mentioned as a player to take into account in the latest Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) report on Portugal's bio-based potential. The document lists 14 collaborative laboratories, public-private entities “dedicated to developing market-oriented research” related to the bioeconomy.

Entitled Mapping Portugal's bio-based potential - Country Report, The report draws attention to the existence in Portugal of several research centers “well located in all regions” that support the bioeconomy and bio-based R&D and industrial activities. Among them is the InnovPlantProtect (InPP) collaborative laboratory (CoLab), based in Elvas, which is dedicated to developing innovative bio-based solutions for crop protection.

The BIC report on Portugal is available online.

The 61-page document, available in full online, reveals “all the potential that Portugal possesses to become one of the world's front-runners European Green Deal”. The study also underlines “the existence of a robust innovation ecosystem in Portugal and highlights the country's growing influence as a leader in the biotechnology sector”.

“The emerging bioeconomy sector in Portugal already contributes nearly 20 billion euros to the national economy and the BIC study shows that there are new opportunities to accelerate green economic growth in the country,” reads a PRESS RELEASE of the organization, which brings together more than 240 members and represents the private sector in the European Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking.

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