i9kiwi Technical Days will be held on December 19!
The i9kiwi Technical Days will take place on the 19th of December. You can follow the whole session through this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce-spjgrHtfqgqRAAb7ojSVU2rzBEunX
i9kiwi was present at the Frutos 2020 Congress dedicated to the theme “Innovation and strategy for national fruitculture”
i9kiwi was present at the Frutos 2020 Congress dedicated to the theme "Innovation and strategy for national fruitculture" is an event dedicated to fruitculture and aims to promote a space for presentation, scientific and technological dissemination and debate, contributing to the launch of new strategies
i9kiwi was featured in the 90 Seconds of Science programme!
i9kiwi was featured on the 90 Seconds of Science programme! Listen to Joana Costa (Fitolab IPN), project coordinator, to learn a little more about the project's objectives: https://www.rtp.pt/play/p2936/e369936/90-segundos-ciencia
Master’s thesis developed within the i9Kiwi project
The Master's Thesis "Impact of insect diversity and abundance on the production of kiwi orchards", developed under the i9Kiwi project, was presented on 17 July. Authored by Hugo Gaspar, the work was developed in the FLOWer Lab of the Centre for Functional Ecology at the
Kiwi Technical Days and Kiwi Farmer Day 2019
Once again i9Kiwi was present at the Kiwifruit Growers Day and Technical Days of APK – Portuguese Kiwifruit Growers Association, where the researchers Aitana Ares and Sara Rodrigues participated, on the 14th of December 2019 in Santa Maria da Feira. Here, emerging phytosanitary problems for
Microbiotec
The Microbiotec 2019 congress was held in Coimbra, at Pole II of the University of Coimbra. This congress takes place every two years and is organised by the Portuguese Society of Microbiology and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology. In this congress many were the topics addressed
i9Kiwi at the Citizen Science Congress 2019
Another presentation of i9Kiwi, this time at the 2nd National Meeting of Citizen Science, at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, where Hugo Gaspar, researcher from @cfe_flowerlab, went to talk about the active involvement of technicians and producers in the sampling of insect diversity in kiwifruit
Brown marmorated stink bug could invade Portugal, scientists warn
Investigadores de Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC) alertaram esta quinta-feira contra os perigos do percevejo asiático, “insecto problemático” com uma “já longa lista de países invadidos”, ao qual Portugal não deverá escapar.
FCTUC researchers carry out awareness campaign on the Asian bed bug pest
Numa altura em que se discute intensamente o combate à vespa asiática (vespa velutina), «existe outro inseto muito problemático, o percevejo asiático (Halyomorpha halys), que, com certeza, nos vai incluir na já longa lista de países invadidos em todo o mundo», alerta um grupo de