Figueira E., Matos D., Cardoso P., 2 Sa C., Fernandes C., Tauler R., Bedia C. (2021) An underground strategy to increase mercury tolerance in the salt marsh halophyte Juncus maritimus Lam.: Lipid remodelling and Hg restriction.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 191
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Sá C., Matos D., Pires A., Cardoso, P., Figueira, E. (2021) Effects of volatile sulfur compounds on growth and oxidative stress of Rhizobium leguminosarum E20-8 exposed to cadmium.
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Matos D., Sa C., Cardoso P., Pires A., Figueira E. (2020) Rhizobium sensing of airborne saturated aldehydes of different sizes modulates the response to Cd exposure.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 395
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Matos D., Sa C., Cardoso P., Pires A., Rocha S.M., Figueira E. (2019) The role of volatiles in Rhizobium tolerance to cadmium: Effects of aldehydes and alcohols on growth and biochemical endpoints.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY, 186
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Diana Matos
PhD student
- Author Name : Matos, Diana
- Doctoral Programme: Biology
- Thesis title: MaISResist - Protecting MAize from cephalosporiosis: bacteria Induced Systemic RESISTance
- Supervisor: Prof. Etelvina Figueira, Dra. Leire Molinero, Dr. Paulo Cardoso
- Researcher ID:
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9378-5323
- Ciencia ID: 9C10-BFD0-D28B
- Department: Biology
- Research Group: Biogeochemical Processes & Pollutants (BPP) Thesis title: MaISResist - Protecting MAize from cephalosporiosis: bacteria Induced Systemic RESISTance Supervisor: Prof. Etelvina Figueira, Dra. Leire Molinero, Dr. Paulo Cardoso Category: BO Grant type: BD Funding entity: FCT Grant reference: 2020.07142.B Start date: 2020-10-01 End date: 2024-10-01
Research interests
Biochemistry and metabolomics of organisms under stress
Rhizobacterias: plant growth promotion and plant protection
Volatile organic compounds: influence on bacteria, fungi and plants
Plant bacteria interactions: volatile communication and bacterial VOCs infleunce on growth, tolerance and resistance
Pant-fungi interactions: pathogenicity, influence on groth and resistance
Fungi-bacteria interactions: influence on growth inhibition and resistance
Rhizobacterias: plant growth promotion and plant protection
Volatile organic compounds: influence on bacteria, fungi and plants
Plant bacteria interactions: volatile communication and bacterial VOCs infleunce on growth, tolerance and resistance
Pant-fungi interactions: pathogenicity, influence on groth and resistance
Fungi-bacteria interactions: influence on growth inhibition and resistance
Academic degrees
2020 - 2024 - PhD in Biology in the University of Aveiro entitled: "MaISResist - Protecting MAize from cephalosporiosis: bacteria Induced Systemic RESISTance"
2017 - 2019 - Master in Toxicology and ecotoxicology in the University of Aveiro with a thesis entitled: "Shedding light on the effect of saturated aldehydes and alcohols in Rhizobium cells challenged by cadmium: growth and biochemistry"
2012 - 2017 - Degree in Biology in the University of Aveiro with a research project entitled: "Toxin-producer coastal plankton: The pseudo-nitzschia case study" and a final project entitled: "Biochemical and metabolomic evaluation of arsenic effect on the freshwater diatom Nitzschia palea (Kutzing) W. Smith"
2017 - 2019 - Master in Toxicology and ecotoxicology in the University of Aveiro with a thesis entitled: "Shedding light on the effect of saturated aldehydes and alcohols in Rhizobium cells challenged by cadmium: growth and biochemistry"
2012 - 2017 - Degree in Biology in the University of Aveiro with a research project entitled: "Toxin-producer coastal plankton: The pseudo-nitzschia case study" and a final project entitled: "Biochemical and metabolomic evaluation of arsenic effect on the freshwater diatom Nitzschia palea (Kutzing) W. Smith"
Scientific activities
October 2019 - August 2020: Volunteer in the project BIOGEOCLIM - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029185
2019-2020: Volunteer in the project AquaFire - PTDC/CTA-AMB/28936/2017
2019-2020: Volunteer in the project AquaFire - PTDC/CTA-AMB/28936/2017
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MIRACLE - MIcroencapsulation of Rhizobacteria and VOCs to increase plAnt growth and toLErance to drought: a biological approach to meet an agronomic need
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