Educational resources
PhD students from GREEN-IT have developed oral presentations and powerpoint support material on several themes under "Plant Biotechnology for Sustainability and Global Economy". The materials, including some notes for the presentation and a few references for further reading, are free to use in educational context and researchers are available to present it at Schools or other settings.
All presentations can be downloaded and further improved or detailed:
2017
1. [ENGLISH] Biotech Plants Two Different Visions and their Implications in Global Trading
Carlos Moreira
2. [ENGLISH] Intellectual Property in Plant Biotechnology
Davide Martins
3. [ENGLISH] Genome editing to breed better plants
Filipa Lara
4. [ENGLISH] Plant Biotechnology and Plant Breeder’s Rights: - What is fair and needed?
Pedro Carvalho
5. [ENGLISH] Plant Biotechnology in Africa - an emerging trend?
Rui Martins
6. [ENGLISH] Micropropagation Using micro techniques for large scale plant propagation
Sara Tedesco
7. [ENGLISH] Genetically Modified Trees for Industrial Purposes: How can we best use them?
Stefano Nones
2016
1. [ENGLISH] Plant Breeding across times – Challenges and achievements
[PORTUGUÊS] Melhoramento de plantas através dos tempos
Susana Lopes
2. [ENGLISH] Plant Biotechnology – Why and how, in simple words
[PORTUGUÊS] Biotecnologia vegetal como e porquê
Hélia Sales
3. [ENGLISH] Molecular Farming – Basics of green living factories
[PORTUGUÊS] Agricultura molecular - O essencial das fábricas vivas
André Folgado
4. [ENGLISH] GM plants and health issues – A subject of concern?
[PORTUGUÊS] Plantas transgénicas e saúde
Chandra Misra
5. [ENGLISH] Biofortification – Fighting the hidden hunger
[PORTUGUÊS] Biofortificacao - a luta contra a fome oculta
Ana Rodrigues
7. [ENGLISH] Biotech plants for environmental sustainability – Making a better world
[PORTUGUÊS] Plantas biotecnológicas para ambiente sustentavel
Inês Luís
8. [ENGLISH] Bt-plants – Fighting insects with bacterial weapons
[PORTUGUÊS] Planta Bt
Luis Andrade
9. [ENGLISH] Engineering virus-resistance – Can we vaccinate a plant?
[PORTUGUÊS] Vacinar plantas para resistir a virus
Margarida Sampaio
10. [ENGLISH] Empowering the "thirsty" plants – Ways for drought-tolerance...
[PORTUGUÊS] Plantas com sede - tolerância a seca
Inês Modesto
11. [ENGLISH] Plant biotechnology for the XXIst Century – The socio-economic must
[PORTUGUÊS] Biotecnologia vegetal para século XXI - dever sócio económico
Bruno Peixoto
"Plant Biotechnology for Sustainability and Global Economy" curricular unit aims to give students the training and information necessary to understand modern plant biotechnology in the context of current and future global needs and challenges. It aims to provide information on different strategies available to obtain products and services more quickly, more accurately, and overcoming the difficulties posed by plant biological systems. The students should acquire/deepen a critical view about the problems of the worldwide implementation of plant biotechnology strategies, to address the needs of the growing population while ensuring sustainability. The discipline covers various areas of plant research for food, feed, energy, pharmaceuticals and raw materials/industrial products.
This Curricular Unit is offered to the ITQB NOVA PhD Programs funded by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology):
- International PhD Program "Plants for Life"
And the students were funded through these programs, or directly through FCT, or still in a mix manner (through FCT and a private company).
Acknowledgements are due to several colleagues due to their mentorship in some subjects [Carlota Vaz Patto (ITQB NOVA); Rita Abranches (ITQB NOVA); Rita Batista (INSA); Marta Vasconcelos (ESB-UCP); Célia Miguel (iBET), Nelson Saibo (ITQB NOVA), Pedro Fevereiro (FCUL, ITQB NOVA), Marta Ribeiro (ITQB NOVA), Eugénia Almeida (INIAV); Ana Sofia Almeida (INIAV)], and to invited colleagues for their valuable inputs during the students public presentations (Teresa Capell, Paul Christou, Piet van der Linde and Joana Lobo Antunes).
The coordinator: M. Margarida Oliveira
