The PlantPathoRec exploratory project has begun, coordinated by Márcia Barros, LASIGE integrated member, and its goal is accelerating the discovery of new Biological control agents (BCA) by researchers (academia/biotech industry) by recommending new microbes with potential to inhibit plant pathogens, and recommending commercial BCA products to producers/farmers seeking to control disease in their fields, using sequence-aware and graph recommendation algorithms.

This project was awarded in the FCT 2023 Call for Exploratory Projects in all scientific fields, for 16 months from February 2025 to July 2026.

More information about the project: here.