{"id":4533,"date":"2021-10-08T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T08:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","slug":"isolate-and-characterize-the-fungus-that-attacks-portuguese-rice","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/isolar-e-caracterizar-o-fungo-que-ataca-o-arroz-portugues\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolating and characterizing the fungus that attacks Portuguese rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The InnovPlantProtect team looking for a solution to pyriculariosis was at the Open Day for Rice Growing in Baixo Mondego. The infected rice samples taken afterwards are already being analyzed in the laboratory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cristina Azevedo<\/a>, Tiago Amaro<\/a> e Pedro Rosa<\/a> are researchers at InnovPlantProtect (InPP) and are working on the development of biopesticides against rice pyriculariosis, one of the most common diseases of this cereal worldwide and also in Portugal. As a result of the be present<\/a> at the Open Day of Rice Culture in Baixo Mondego, organized by the DRAP Centro<\/a>, On September 14, they subsequently made two field trips to collect samples of infected rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team carried out the harvests in the Mondego area in Montemor-o-Velho, with the support of Ant\u00f3nio Jord\u00e3o, from DRAP Centro, and in the Tejo area in Salvaterra de Magos, with the support of Louren\u00e7o Palha, from the COTArroz<\/a>, after a contact initiated by the INIAV<\/a> Ana Sofia Almeida. The aim of these collections is to isolate and genetically characterize the isolates (cultures of microorganisms) of Magnaporthe oryzae<\/em>, the fungus that causes the disease, present in Portugal today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Open Day showcased \u201cthe excellent work carried out by the INIAV team in the national rice improvement program and by Lusosem in various field trials,\u201d says Cristina Azevedo, director of the InPP's New Biopesticides Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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