Departments

Position
Investigadora (PhD)
Leonor Martins

PhD researcher, Protection of Specific Crops
PhD in Biology at University of Porto

Areas of expertise:

Phytopathology; Plant Physiology; Microbial Genomics; Molecular Biology

Previous positions:

PhD grant from Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

7 Scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 4

Two relevant publications:

Martins, L., Fernandes, C., Albuquerque, P., & Tavares, F. (2019). Assessment of Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis bacterial load in infected walnut fruits by quantitative PCR. Plant Disease, 103(10), 2577–2586. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-18-2253-RE

Fernandes, C*., Martins, L*., Teixeira, M*., Blom, J., Pothier, J. F., Fonseca, N. A., & Tavares, F. (2021). Comparative Genomics of Xanthomonas euroxanthea and Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis strains isolated from a single walnut host tree. Microorganisms 2021, Vol. 9, Page 624, 9(3), 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9030624

*These authors contributed equally to this work