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Helena Bragança, PhD in Biology by the University of Lisbon, is a senior researcher (Investigador Principal) at the INIAV Institute and also belongs to GREEN-IT Bioresources for Sustainability Unit (ITQB NOVA iBET, and INIAV). She has been the Head of the Phyto-Mycology Laboratory at INIAV since 2013. She was an Honorary Researcher at the University of Aberdeen, UK. and she is colaborator of BioISI (BioSystems and Integrative Sciences Institute) of FCUL Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisboa. Her work has been focused on forest pathology, particularly on diagnosis, biology, ecology, and control of fungal diseases of forest trees. Her research has had particular incidence on quarantine organisms in plants. She has contributed to the dissemination of science through scientific publications (peer-reviewed and others) and communications in technical scientific meetings. She has participated in several congressional scientific committees and is part of the editorial board of the scientific journal Silva Lusitana. She regularly reviews scientific papers (Plant disease, Forest pathology, European Journal of Plant Pathology, Microbial Ecology, Forests, Revista das Ciências Agrárias, Silva Lusitana). She participates regularly as a lecturer in trainings in the phytosanitary field, namely for the Plant Health Inspectors of the National Sanitary Veterinary Authority (DGAV), in secondary and professional education, and in higher education, as a guest lecturer in her fields of expertise. She is a regular guest lecturer at the School of Agriculture of the University of Lisbon (Forestry and Natural Resources Master and degree), and gave contributions at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (Forestry Engineer degree) and at the Ecology and Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Forest Resources degree). She has been advising thesis in undergraduate, masters, and PhD degrees in different Portuguese Universities and has participated as a jury in the evaluation of PhD theses (Aveiro University, Lisbon University, ITQB NOVA, Valladolid University, Santiago de Compostela University; University of Pretoria), master theses and pre-Bologna bachelor theses. She keeps close functional relationships with different Portuguese state institutions, as well as higher education and research institutions at home and abroad. She is part of several national and international associations, working groups and Portuguese MC member of COST Actions, in her fields of expertise. In addition to her research activity, she manages the Phyto-Mycology laboratory at INIAV I.P., and is responsible for National Plans for quarantine organisms. Additionally, she takes part in conducting analyses in the phytosanitary consultations service, and in elaborating reports and position pieces in the phytopathology field, at the request of different private and state institutions, both nationally and internationally.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Helena Pires Bragança

Citation names

  • Bragança, Helena
  • Helena Bragança

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6B1D-7328-9461
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7957-5493

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008
Concluded
Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Chestnut blight in Portugal: spread and populational structure of Cryphonectria parasitica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Louvor e Distinção
2000
Concluded
Fisiologia e Bioquímica de Plantas- Patologia de Plantas (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Análise Fenética em Armillaria - Pesquisa de Marcadores Bioquímicos e Moleculares para Diferenciação inter-específica." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito Bom
1993
Concluded
Engenharia Agro Industrial (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Estudo da formação de micorrizas a potenciais osmóticos controlados. 35 pp." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/01/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Pólo Oeiras, Portugal
2008/06/24 - 2023/12/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
2009/09/01 - 2010/10/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
2000/07/04 - 2008/06/23 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
1992/08/15 - 2000/07/03 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2013/03/20 - Current Head of Mycology Laboratory Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
1995 - 1997 Análise Fenética em Armillaria - Pesquisa de Marcadores Bioquímicos e Moleculares para Diferenciação inter-específica.
6902/95
Master Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/11 - Current EPA04.01.02 GP/EFSA/PLANTS/2022/02 - 04 /Supporting tasks in the area of Plant health Risk Assessment
EPA04.01.02 GP/EFSA/PLANTS/2022/02
Researcher
Ongoing
2018/10/15 - Current Pine ENEMY - Exploring the NEmatode-MYcobiota interactions in PineWilt Disease - ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-028724
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/05/09 - Current Programa de Fortalecimento da Resiliência e da Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional em Angola- FRESAN -
Researcher
European Union

Instituto Camões
Ongoing
2018/05/01 - Current BioChestnut- IPM - Implementar estratégias de luta eficazes contra doenças do castanheiro e amendoeira
PDR2020-101-030943
Researcher
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Ongoing
2018 - Current Gestão Integrada de Agentes Bióticos Associados à Perda de Produção de Pinhão (+Pinhão)
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Instituto das Florestas e Conservação da Natureza, Portugal
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Ongoing
2018 - Current Gestão Integrada de Agentes Bióticos Associados à Perda de Produção de Pinhão (+Pinhão) European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
2016 - Current Study of the effects of fire and forest management in cork oak forest stands
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2024/01/02 - 2028/12/31 Eucalyptus Diseases: technical support for the diagnosis and control of phytosanitary problems in Eucalyptus
INIAV/Instituto RAIZ/ /ALTRI florestal
Principal investigator
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

ALTRI Florestal, Portugal

RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal
Raiz - Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel

ALTRI Florestal
Ongoing
2024/09/01 - 2028/10 Forest surveillance with artificial intelligence and digital technologies - FORSAID
101134200
Researcher
European Union
Ongoing
2024 - 2027 Role of tenuipalpid mites and associated pathogens on shoot-wilt in Stone pine plantations -
EUPHRESCO 2023-A-436
Researcher
Ongoing
2023 - 2026 LIFE22-ENV-IT-NATURA AGRO -NATURAL AGROchemical formulations to reduce the environmental impact of pest control in vineyards
101113781 — LIFE22-ENV-IT-NATURA AGRO — LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV
Researcher
Ongoing
2021/10/26 - 2025/10/25 UB3Guard - Urban Tree Guard - Safeguarding European urban trees and forests through improved biosecurity-Cost Action CA20132
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Ongoing
2022/07/01 - 2023/12/31 POCI-07-62G4-FEDER-181575 MoniTREEng Monitoring the health, productivity and natural regeneration of Quercus sp.
POCI-07-62G4-FEDER-181575
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/12/31 EXPL/ASP-AGR/0082/2021 LeWISPT - O ácaro-de-Lewis, Eotetranychus lewisi: uma nova praga emergente, ou apenas mais um ácaro exótico?
EXPL/ASP-AGR/0082/2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2023/04/30 Seed-borne pathogens of conifers (Cosepath)
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

UK-Forest Research, United Kingdom
Ongoing
2020/03/01 - 2023/02/28 Eucalyptus Diseases: technical support for the diagnosis and control of phytosanitary problems in Eucalyptus
Contrato RAIZ/ALTRI FLORESTAL
Principal investigator
ALTRI Florestal, Portugal

Raiz - Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
ALTRI Florestal

Raiz - Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel
Ongoing
2017/10/01 - 2022/12/31 Desenvolvimento de estratégias integradas para prevenção do Cancro-resinoso do-pinheiro (+ Prev)
PDR2020-101-031061
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Concluded
2020/07 - 2022/04 Sampling and analysis of asymptomatic Citrus fruits and leaf litter to detect the infection of Phyllosticta citricarpa (CBS-DETECT).EUPHRESCO Project
Researcher
Ongoing
2017/01 - 2021/12 BROWNSPOTRISK Lecanosticta -Brown spot disease of pines- spread in European forest ecosystems: impact on pines, predisposing and contributing factors, control
BROWNSPOTRISK (2016-G-223)
Researcher
N/A
Concluded
2016/01/07 - 2019/06/30 Plans de gestions des risques transnationaux pour les espaces ruraux forestiers sensibles aux risques biotiques et abiotiques – PLURIFOR
Researcher
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Concluded
2015 - 2019 PINESTRENGTH Pine pitch canker - strategies for management of Gibberella circinata in greenhouses and forests
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2016/09 - 2018/08 CERACRY Identification and early detection of Cryphonectria parasitica and Ceratocystis platani occurring on trees in Europe
Researcher
Concluded
2014 - 2018 Global Warning - A global network of nurseries as early warning system against alien tree pests
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2014/03 - 2017/02 Inovação na cadeia de produção de castanha: competitividade e sustentabilidade
PRODER nº 53593
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2014 - 2017 SafeBrocolo - Melhoria do processo produtivo com base em modelos de risco para alternaria e mosca da couve
PRODER nº: 57153
Researcher
Concluded
2014 - 2016 Estudo das Doenças do eucalipto – prospecção e controlo
RAIZ/ALTRI FLORESTAL
Principal investigator
Concluded
2012 - 2016 FRAXBACK - dieback in Europe: elaborating guidelines and strategies for sustainable management
COST Action FP1103
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2013/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Biological Control by Hypovirulence Against Chestnut Blight in Portugal
PTDC/AGR-PRO/4606/2012
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/06/03 - 2015/09/30 Potencial impacto das alterações climáticas em doenças de Eucalyptus spp. causadas por Botryosphaeriaceae em Portugal
PTDC/AGR-FOR/3807/2012
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011 - 2015 DIAROD Invasiveness and Risk of Dothistroma
COST Action FP 1102
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2014/03/31 CEP current and emerging phytophthoras Improved diagnostics and risk assessment for current and emerging Phytophthora species
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2013 - 2014 A Floresta ao Microscópio
Programa Ciência Viva PEC 77
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012 - 2014 Fungi related with yellow spot on Cork planks in factory
N.A.
Principal investigator
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Amorim Florestal SA, Portugal
Concluded
2009 - 2014 Experimentação e Divulgação de Técnicas de Gestão param a Recuperação do Montado de Sobro na Região de Grândola
N.A.
Researcher
Concluded
2012 - 2013 Avaliação da fertilidade química dos solos, a sua disponibilidade em nutrientes e a deteção de agentes patogénicos para os sobreiros
Florestas Sustentáveis
Researcher
Concluded
2011 - 2013 Development and validation of diagnostic methods for Gibberella circinata (Fusarium circinatum) cause of pitch pine canker
NCM2
Researcher
Concluded
2004 - 2007 Gestão de pragas em pinhal e eucaliptal, minimização de impactes ambientais e conservação da biodiversidade
AGRO 550
Researcher
Concluded
2004 - 2006 Experimentação e demonstração de técnicas silvícolas e de gestão sustentável em pinhal bravo
AGRO nº 372
Researcher
Concluded
2004 - 2006 Interacções insectosfungos no montado de sobro: bases para a definição de novos meios de luta
PIDDAC 201
Researcher
Concluded
2004 - 2006 Experimentação e demonstração de técnicas silvícolas e de gestão sustentável em pinhal bravo
AGRO nº 372
N/A
2002 - 2005 Chestnut culture: experimental development for Integrated Protection
AGRO 219
Principal investigator
Concluded
2001 - 2004 Promoção da Gestão Integrada, Conservação e Sustentabilidade do Montado de Sobro
PARLE
Researcher
Concluded
2001 - 2003 Caracterização de estirpes de Cryphonectria parasitica e bases para um programa de luta biológica
PIDDAC 204
Principal investigator
Concluded
1999 - 2002 Infecção de Quercus suber por Armillaria spp. Consequências na qualidade da cortiça para rolhas
PRAXIS XXI-P/AGR/11237/1998
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
1998 - 2000 Fire Torch Prescribed burning as a tool for the Mediterranean region: a management approach
ENV4980715
Researcher
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
1997 - 2000 Determinação de índices de risco da incidência de pragas e doenças do pinhal bravo relacionadas com operações culturais
PAMAF – I&D 4077
Researcher
Concluded
1995 - 1997 Desenvolvimento de testes padrão para identificação de fungos em ecossistemas florestais
PIDDAC nº 315
Other
Concluded
1994 - 1995 Improvement of Quality and Productivity of Cork Oak
CAMAR 8001 - CT 91-0
Other
Concluded
1993 - 1994 Résistance des plantations forestières au stress hydrique: rôle de la symbiose ectomycorhizienne
FOREST- MA2B-CT90-0001
Other
Concluded
1993 - 1994 Résistance des plantations forestières au stress hydrique: rôle de la symbiose ectomycorhizienne
FOREST- MA2B-CT90-0001
N/A
1992 - 1993 Contribuição para a caracterização da micoflora da cortiça desde o descortiçamento à cura
PEDIP
Other
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2011 - 2016 Caracterização do estado sanitário dos povoamentos de pinhal - medidas para a gestão, recuperação e valorização da floresta
N.A.
Researcher
Concluded
2011 - 2013 Estudo das Doenças de tronco/ramos e raiz de eucalipto
Protocolo 11-13 RAIZ/ALTRI FLORESTAL
Principal investigator
Concluded
2009/08/01 - 2010/08/31 BACCARA: Biodiversity And Climate Change, A Risk Analysis - FP7 RTD
226299
Researcher
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
European Comission - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Concluded
2006 - 2009 Programa de Melhoramento Florestal da Região Autónoma dos Açores -Resistência a Armillaria mellea
Researcher
Governo dos Açores
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pinto Correia et al. Livro Verde dos Montados. Universidade de Évora. 2013.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Carlos Valente, Catarina Gonçalves, José Vasques, Ana Catarina Manta, Helena Bragança, Manuela Branco. "Pragas e Doenças Associadas aos Eucaliptos". In As plantações de eucalipto e os recursos naturais em Portugal, edited by Silva Lusitana, 159-175. Portugal, 2021.
    Published
  2. Bragança, Helena. "The Last Basket Weaver of São Mamede". In Poverty Reduction Through Non-Timber Forest Products-Sustainable Development Goals Series., 131-134. Springer, 2019.
    Published
  3. Moreira A.C. , H. Bragança, C. Boavida and V. Talgø. "Field diagnosis of damaging agents of woody plants". 2017.
  4. Bragança H., Varela C.. "Fraxinus angustifolia and forest health in Portugal – an overview,". In Dieback of European Ash (Fraxinus spp.) Consequences and Guidelines for Sustainable Management, edited by Rimvydas Vasaitis & Rasmus Enderle, 284-287. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden & Department of Forest Health, Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Fr, 2017.
    Published
  5. Branco M., Bragança H, Sousa E., Phillips A. JL. "Pests and Diseases in Portuguese Forestry: Current and New Threats - Chapter V". Springer International Publishing, 2014.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-08455-8
  6. VASCONCELOS T., H. MACHADO, L. BONIFÁCIO, H. BRAGANÇA, L. INÁCIO, M. BRANCO. "Doenças e Pragas das Florestas Portuguesas - Proteger a Floresta- Incêndios Pragas e Doenças". In Árvores e Florestas de Portugal,, 129-164. Fundação Luso -Americana para o Desenvolvimento; Público Comunicação Social, 2007.
  7. Machado H. & H. Bragança. "In vitro study of ectomycorrhiza formation under drought stress conditions. In Mycorrhizas in Integrated Systems. From Genes to Plant Development. C. Azcón-Aguilar & J. M. Barea (Eds.), Published by the European Commission, Brussels, ISBN 92-827-5676-9, 455-458.". In Mycorrhizas in Integrated Systems. From Genes to Plant Development. , Published by the European Commission, Brussels, ISBN 92-827-5676-9, 455-458., edited by C. Azcón-Aguilar & J. M. Barea, 455-458. Brussels, Belgium: European Commission, Brussels ISBN 92-827-5676-9, 1996.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Luís Fernandes; Diana S. Paiva; Ana C. Silva; Cláudia Fernandes; Ana Rita Fernandes; Dina Ribeiro; Luís Martins; Helena Bragança; António Portugal. "From Lab to Nursery: Novel Approaches of Seed Disinfection for Managing Pine Pitch Canker Propagation". Forests (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/f15071154.
    10.3390/f15071154
  2. Veloso, Sandra; Magro, Ana; Henriques, Joana; Bonifácio, Luís; Fernandes, José Pedro; Ramos, Ana Paula; Diogo, Eugénio; Bragança, Helena. "Trichoderma atrobrunneum associated with yellow stain defect of cork planks and critical values of TCA for wine cork stoppers industry". European Journal of Wood and Wood Products (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00107-024-02070-6.
    Published • 10.1007/s00107-024-02070-6
  3. Franic, Iva; Cleary, Michelle; Aday Kaya, Ayse Gülden; Bragança, Helena; Brodal, Guro; Cech, Thomas L.; Chandelier, Anne; et al. "The Biosecurity Risks of International Forest Tree Seed Movements". Current Forestry Reports (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40725-023-00211-3.
    Open access • 10.1007/s40725-023-00211-3
  4. Carlos Valente; Helena Bragança; Helena Machado; Eugénio Diogo; Alan J. L. Phillips; Ana C. Silva; Catarina Gonçalves; Ana Reis. "Emergent diseases in Eucalypts in Portugal". Agrociencia Uruguay (2023): https://doi.org/10.31285/AGRO.27.1278.
    10.31285/AGRO.27.1278
  5. Franic al.. "Climate, host and geography shape insect 1 and fungal communities of trees". Scientific Reports (2023): https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.17.537195.
    Published
  6. Tubby, K.; Adamcikova, K.; Adamson, K.; Akiba, M.; Barnes, I.; Boron, P.; Bragança, H.; et al. "The increasing threat to European forests from the invasive foliar pine pathogen, Lecanosticta acicola". Forest Ecology and Management 536 (2023): 120847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120847.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120847
  7. Eugénio Diogo; Helena Machado; Ana Reis; Carlos Valente; Alan J.L. Phillips; Helena Bragança. "Phytophthora alticola and Phytophthora cinnamomi on Eucalyptus globulus in Portugal". European Journal of Plant Pathology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-022-02604-9.
    10.1007/s10658-022-02604-9
  8. Laas M, Kalev A, Barnes I, Janoušek J, Mullett M, Adamcíková K , Akiba M, Beenken L, Braganca H, Bulgakov T, Capretti P. "Diversity, migration routes, and worldwide population genetic structure of Lecanosticta acicola, the causal agent of brown spot needle blight". Molecular Plant Pathology (2022): 1-20.
    Open access • Published
  9. Franic I., S. Prospero, K. Adamson, E. Allan, F. Attorre, M.-A. Auger-Rozenberg, S.Augustin, D. Avtzis, W. Baert, M. Bar. "Worldwide diversity of endophytic fungi and insects associated with dormant tree twigs". Scientific data 9 62 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01162-3.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01162-3
  10. Braganca, H.; Diogo, E; Silva, AC. "Effect of substrate solarization for the control of fungi: the case study of Fusarium circinatum, the quarantine agent of pine pitch canker". Silva Lusitana 29 2 (2021): 161-175.
    Open access • Published
  11. Fernandes L., D. Paiva, I. Roxo, J. Trovão, H. Bragança, A. Portugal. "First report of Neofusicoccum luteum as the causal agent of canker and die-back of Cupressus sempervirens". Silva Lusitana 29 2 (2021): 101-114.
    Open access • Published
  12. Eugénio Diogo; Catarina I. Gonçalves; Ana C. Silva; Carlos Valente; Helena Bragança; Alan J. L. Phillips. "Five new species of Neopestalotiopsis associated with diseased Eucalyptus spp. in Portugal". Mycological Progress (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-021-01741-5.
    10.1007/s11557-021-01741-5
  13. Carolina Cornejo; Sakae Hisano; Helena Bragança; Nobuhiro Suzuki; Daniel Rigling. "A New Double-Stranded RNA Mycovirus in Cryphonectria naterciae Is Able to Cross the Species Barrier and Is Deleterious to a New Host". Journal of Fungi (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7100861.
    10.3390/jof7100861
  14. Ana Cristina Silva; Eugénio Diogo; Helena Bragança. "Effect of Substrate Solarization for the Control of Fungi: The Case Study of Fusarium circinatum, the Quarantine Agent of Pine Pitch Canker". Silva Lusitana 29 2 (2021): 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1051/silu/20212902161.
    10.1051/silu/20212902161
  15. Ana Cristina Silva; Eugénio Diogo; Joana Henriques; Ana Paula Ramos; Marcelo Sandoval-Denis; Pedro W. Crous; Helena Bragança. "Pestalotiopsis pini sp. nov., an Emerging Pathogen on Stone Pine (Pinus pinea L.)". Forests 11 8 (2020): 805-805. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080805.
    10.3390/f11080805
  16. Rein Drenkhan, Beccy Ganley, Jorge Martín-García, Petr Vahalík, Kalev Adamson, Katarína Adamcíková, Rodrigo Ahumada, Lio. "Global Geographic Distribution and Host Range of Fusarium circinatum, the Causal Agent of Pine Pitch Canker". Forests (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11070724.
    10.3390/f11070724
  17. Ana Cristina Silva; Joana Henriques; Eugénio Diogo; Ana Paula Ramos; Helena Bragança. "Cover Image". Forest Pathology 50 1 (2020): e12586-e12586. https://doi.org/10.1111/efp.12586.
    10.1111/efp.12586
  18. Silva, A.C.; Henriques, J.; Diogo, E.; Ramos, A.P.; Bragança, H.. "First report of Sydowia polyspora causing disease on Pinus pinea shoots". Forest Pathology 50 1 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85076740734&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12570
  19. Elvira-Recuenco, M.; Cacciola, S.O.; Sanz-Ros, A.V.; Garbelotto, M.; Aguayo, J.; Solla, A.; Mullett, M.; Drenkhan, T.; O. "Potential interactions between invasive Fusarium circinatum and other pine pathogens in Europe". Forests 11 1 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85079799528&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/F11010007
  20. Ioos, R.; Aloi, F.; Piškur, B.; Guinet, C.; Mullett, M.; Berbegal, M.; Bragança, H.; et al. "Transferability of PCR-based diagnostic protocols: An international collaborative case study assessing protocols targeting the quarantine pine pathogen Fusarium circinatum". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85066628775&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-019-44672-8
  21. Naves, P.; Bragança, H.; Nóbrega, F.; Valente, C.. "Ambrosiodmus rubricollis (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Scolytinae) associated with young Tasmanian blue gum trees". Journal of Applied Entomology 143 10 (2019): 1200-1204. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85073962299&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jen.12700
  22. Vainio, E.J.; Bezos, D.; Bragança, H.; Cleary, M.; Fourie, G.; Georgieva, M.; Ghelardini, L.; et al. "Sampling and detection strategies for the pine pitch canker (PPC) disease pathogen Fusarium Circinatum in Europe". Forests 10 9 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85072586149&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/f10090723
  23. Mullett, M.S.; Adamson, K.; Bragança, H.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Georgieva, M.; Henriques, J.; Jürisoo, L.; et al. "New country and regional records of the pine needle blight pathogens Lecanosticta acicola, Dothistroma septosporum and Dothistroma pini". Forest Pathology (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85047508938&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12440
  24. Helena Bragança; Neno J.; Henriques J.; Diogo E.; Alves A.. "First Report of Diplodia quercivora Causing Dieback on Quercus suber and in Europe". Plant Disease (2016):
    10.1094/PDIS-03-16-0380-PDN
  25. Bragança, H.; Diogo, E.L.F.; Neves, L.; Valente, C.; Araújo, C.; Bonifácio, L.; Phillips, A.J.L.. "Quambalaria eucalypti a pathogen of Eucalyptus globulus newly reported in Portugal and in Europe". Forest Pathology 46 1 (2016): 67-75. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84956586276&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12221
  26. Barradas, C.; Phillips, A.J.L.; Correia, A.; Diogo, E.; Bragança, H.; Alves, A.. "Diversity and potential impact of Botryosphaeriaceae species associated with Eucalyptus globulus plantations in Portugal". European Journal of Plant Pathology 146 2 (2016): 245-257. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84961210827&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10658-016-0910-1
  27. Drenkhan, R.; Tomešová-Haataja, V.; Fraser, S.; Bradshaw, R.E.; Vahalík, P.; Mullett, M.S.; Martín-García, J.; et al. "Global geographic distribution and host range of Dothistroma species: a comprehensive review". Forest Pathology 46 5 (2016): 408-442. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84987665869&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12290
  28. Gouveia E; Pereira E.; Araújo A.; Coelho V.; Castro J.,; Helena Bragança; Martins L.. "Cancro do Castanheiro em Trás-os-Montes (Portugal): Incidência atual e estudo da estrutura populacional de Cryphonectria parasitica para a introdução da luta biológica por hipovirulência". Gaia Scientia (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.21707/gs.v10.n02a08.
    10.21707/gs.v10.n02a08
  29. Carmen Santos; Helena Bragança; Helena Machado; Susana Serrazina Pedro Fevereiro C. Dana Nelson Rita Costa; Filomena Gomes ; José Gomes-Laranjo ; C. Dana Nelson ; et al. "Comprehension of resistance to diseases in chestnut". Revista das Ciências Agrárias (2016):
    http://dx.doi.org/10.19084/RCA15145
  30. Bulman, L.S.; Bradshaw, R.E.; Fraser, S.; Martín-García, J.; Barnes, I.; Musolin, D.L.; La Porta, N.; et al. "A worldwide perspective on the management and control of Dothistroma needle blight". Forest Pathology 46 5 (2016): 472-488. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84988655822&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12305
  31. Silva, M.R.C.; Diogo, E.; Bragança, H.; Machado, H.; Phillips, A.J.L.. "Teratosphaeria gauchensis associated with trunk, stem and foliar lesions of Eucalyptus globulus in Portugal". Forest Pathology 45 3 (2015): 224-234. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930821386&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/efp.12160
  32. Bragança, Maria; T. Esteves; R. Rojas; S. Alvarez; S. Zacchinod; H. Bragança. "Essential oil characterization of two Azorean Cryptomeria japonica populations and their biological evaluations". Natural Product Communications 8 12 (2013): 1785-1790. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890882268&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  33. Bragança, H.; Rigling, D.; Diogo, E.; Capelo, J.; Phillips, A.; Tenreiro, R.. "Cryphonectria naterciae: A new species in the Cryphonectria-Endothia complex and diagnostic molecular markers based on microsatellite-primed PCR". Fungal Biology 115 9 (2011): 852-861. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052032780&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.014
  34. Bragança, H.; Diogo, E.; Moniz, F.; Amaro, P.. "First report of pitch canker on pines caused by Fusarium circinatum in Portugal". Plant Disease 93 10 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349758777&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1094/PDIS-93-10-1075A
  35. Bragança, H.; Simões, S.; Onofre, N.; Santos, N.. "Factors influencing the incidence and spread of chestnut blight in Northeastern Portugal". Journal of Plant Pathology 91 1 (2009): 53-59. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68849114224&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4454/jpp.v91i1.623
  36. Bragança, Maria; S. Sofia; M. Capelo; J. Marcelino; N. Santos. "Geographic distribution of chestnut blight disease in Portugal". Revista das Ciências Agrárias (2008):
  37. Bragança, H.; Simões, S.; Onofre, N.; Tenreiro, R.; Rigling, D.. "Cryphonectria parasitica in Portugal: Diversity of vegetative compatibility types, mating types, and occurrence of hypovirulence". Forest Pathology 37 6 (2007): 391-402. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36348986578&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1439-0329.2007.00513.x
  38. Braganca, H.; Simoes, S.; Santos, N.; Marcelino, J.; Rigling, D.; Tenreiro, R.. "Chestnut blight in Portugal - Monitoring and vc types of Cryphonectria parasitica". 693 (2005): 627-633.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36348957320&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.17660/ActaHortic.2005.693.84
  39. Santos N; H. Bragança,; P. Casimiro. "Microrganismos associados à cortiça em diferentes fases da sua fileira". Silva Lusitana (2005):
  40. INÁCIO, Lurdes; BRAGANÇA, Helena; MACHADO, Helena; HENRIQUES, Joana. & MONIZ, Fátima. "Les principales maladies des peuplements de chêne-liège et de chêne vert au Portugal". 28 8 (2005): 113-116.
    Published
  41. Bragança, Helena. "Identification of Portuguese Armillaria isolates by classic mating-tests and amplified ribossomal DNA restriction analysis". Silva Lusitana 12 1 (2004): 67-75.
    Published
  42. Bragança, Maria. "Caracterização da Micoflora da Cortiça desde o Descortiçamento à Cura.". Silva Lusitana (1996):
Magazine article
  1. A.C. Silva, E. Diogo, H. Bragança. "Novas espécies de fungos pestalotióides em ecossistemas florestais em Portugal", Vida Rural, 2022, https://www.vidarural.pt/premium/fungos-pestalotioides-especies-florestais/.
  2. Henriques J., Diogo E., Bragança H.. "Fungos de quarentena em citrinos: riscos associados à importação de frutos", 2022
  3. Bragança, Helena; Colavolpe B., Santos B., Fernandes P., Bragança H., Costa R... "Suscetibilidade de Variedades de Castanheiro Portuguesas à Doença Do Cancro", AGROTEC -Revista Técnico-Científica Agrícola , 2021
  4. Bragança H., Silva A.C., Henriques J., Diogo E., Ramos A.P.. "Sydowia polyspora: um novo fungo associado à doença dos ápices do pinheiro-manso.", Vida Rural, 2020
  5. Bragança, Helena. "Cancro do castanheiro – Prós e contras da luta Biológica.", Vida Rural, 2019
  6. Bragança, Helena; Chicau G, Diogo E., Bragança H.. "Principais doenças causadas por fungos na cultura do mirtilo no Norte de Portugal", Voz do Campo, 2017
  7. Bragança, Helena; Diogo, E., Bragança H., Chicau G.. "Principais doenças causadas por fungos na cultura do mirtilo em Portugal", Vida Rural, 2017
Manual
  1. A. R. Fernandes, A. C. Silva, A. Portugal,C. Fernandes, D. Ribeiro, H. Bragança, H. Ribeiro J. N. Barbosa, L.Fernandes,. Prevenção do cancro-resinoso-do-pinheiro (Fusarium circinatum) - Manual técnico para Fornecedores de Materiais Florestais de Reprodução. Lisboa, Portugal. 2021.
    In press
  2. Silva A.C.,; Bragança, H.. Corresponding author: Bragança, H.. Doenças fúngicas em pinheiro manso Folheto técnico. Portugal: Edição UNAC – União da Floresta Mediterrânica. 2021.
    Published
  3. Bragança, H.; Silva, A.C.. Corresponding author: Bragança, H.. Desenvolvimento de Métodos Eficazes no Tratamento de Sementes- Desenvolvimento de estratégias integradas para prevenção do cancro-resinoso-do pinheiro Folheto técnico GO +prev. INIAV. 2021.
    Published
  4. Bragança H., Branco M., S. Branco,Carrasquinho I., Correia A., A. Farinha, Henriques J., Machado B., Mateus E., Marcelo. Manual Técnico - Boas práticas para a gestão de pragas e doenças da pinha e pinhão. Portugal: UNAC. 2021.
    Published
  5. Naves P., Bragança H., Silva A.C., Correia A., C.S.. Silva. Danos nas Pinhas Como identificar o agente?. Edição UNAC – União da Floresta Mediterrânica. 2021.
  6. Hantula J., Martínez­Álvarez P., Adamson K., Ahumada R., Bragança H., Capretti P., McCarthy N., Drenkhan R., Dvorák M.,. Pine Pitch Canker Disease (PPC) Pathways of Disease Spread and Preventive Measures.. PINESTRENGTH-COST Action FP1406.. 2018.
    Published
  7. Alves, H. & Bragança H. Cancro Resinoso do Pinheiro- Guia de Campo. PINESTRENGTH-COST Action FP1406.. 2018.
    Published
  8. Bragança, Helena. Cancro Resinoso do Pinheiro (CRP): vias de disseminação e medidas preventivas.. PINESTRENGTH-COST Action FP1406.. 2018.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Bragança, Helena. "Chestnut blight in Portugal: spread and populational structure of Cryphonectria parasitica.". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2007. http://sibul.reitoria.ul.pt/F/?func=item-global&doc_library=ULB01&type=03&doc_number=000531863.
  2. Bragança, Helena. "Análise Fenética em Armillaria - Pesquisa de Marcadores Bioquímicos e Moleculares para Diferenciação inter-específica". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 1999.
  3. Bragança, Helena. "Estudo da formação de micorrizas a potenciais osmóticos controlados". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 1992.

Other

Other output
  1. A New Double-Stranded RNA Mycovirus in Cryphonectria naterciae is Able to Cross the Species Barrier and is Deleterious to a New Host. 2021. Carolina Cornejo; Sakae Hisano; Helena Bragança; Nobuhiro Suzuki; Daniel Rigling. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202109.0325.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202109.0325.v1
  2. Recensão do livro de P. D. Bridge, Y. Couteaudier, and J. M. Clarkson Eds. “Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens. BRAGANÇA H. 2004. Recensão do livro de P. D. Bridge, Y. Couteaudier, and J. M. Clarkson Eds. “Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens”. Silva Lusitana 12 (1): 131-132.. 2004. Bragança, Helena.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current An Integrative Approach against Shoot Blight Disease on Stone pine
Co-supervisor
Biologia (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - Current Canker diseases of Eucalypts in Portugal. Taxonomy and pathology of associated fungi
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2018/07/20 Contribution to the Study of Shoot Blight Disease on Stone Pine (Pinus pinea L.)
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2014 - 2016/03/02 Identificação e estudo de espécies de Botryosphaeriaceae sp. em eucalipto e em montado de sobro
Supervisor
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013 - 2014/07/03 Identificação da micoflora associada à cortiça crua com o defeito da mancha amarela
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Prospecção do cancro do castanheiro (Cryphonectria parasítica) na área do Parque natural da Serra de S. Mamede
Supervisor
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Avaliação da distribuição e alastramento do cancro do castanheiro na região da Beira Interior
Supervisor
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/06 Membro do júri de avaliação da tese de doutoramento “Emerging pathogens of eucalyptus and acacia plantation forestry in Indonesia”
(Thesis) Arguer
Marthin Tarigan (PhD)
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2023/01/10 Canker diseases of Eucalypts in Portugal. Taxonomy and pathology of associated fungi
Supervisor
Eugénio Luis de Fraga Diogo (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/04/01 Map, Detect and Research Botryosphaeriaceae species
(Thesis) Arguer
Eduardo Vaz Lemos Pires Batista. (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/02 Transcriptomics Technologies and Their Potential for Pine Pitch Canker Management
Thesis Member
Cristina Zamora Ballesteros (PhD)
2021/11/23 Endophytic community in Quercus ilex acorns and preliminary search for antimicrobial properties
(Thesis) Main arguer
Gabriela Dâmaso e Ricardo (Master)
2018/03/22 Belowground fungi are key sentinels in forest soils vulnerable to pentachlorophenol pollution: a mechanistic study in Quercus suber forests
(Thesis) Arguer
Adélia Maria Rocha Gomes Varela (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2016 Climate changes and Botryosphaeriaceae diseases of Eucalyptus in Portugal
(Thesis) Arguer
Carla Bernardete Rodrigues Barradas (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014/07/16 Identificação da micoflora associada à cortiça crua com o defeito da “mancha amarela
Supervisor
Sandra Maria Ferreira Veloso (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2013/12/13 Susceptibilidad de Pinus pinaster Ait. ante Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg y O`Donnell: variabilidad y efectos maternos
(Thesis) Main arguer
María Vivas Conejero (PhD)
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
2010 Caracterización morfológica y molecular de las poblacones de Cryphonectria parasitica (Murril) M.E. Barr en Castaños de Galicia y su implicación en el control biológico del cancro
Thesis Member
Dolores Montenegro Gregorio (PhD)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Editorial Board of Silva Lusitana - The Silva Lusitana is a scientific journal in forestry and similar sciences published twice a year (June and December), which aims to disseminate national and international knowledge developed in this area. Silva Lusitana is published by INIAV-Oeiras, since 1993, and which aims to disseminate the results of research and experimentation carried out at national and international level in the field of forest and related sciences.
2015 - Current Oak Group Expertise - OILB L'organisation Internationale de lutte biologique /International organisation for Biological Control (IOBC)
2014 - Current INIAV-Fusarium circinatum - ICNF/INIAV/DGAV-Plano Nacional de Organismos Nocivos de Quarentena
Coordinator

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Elsevier Advisory Panel The Elsevier Foundation, Netherlands
2014 - Current POSF - Programa Operacional de Sanidade Florestal- Forest Pathology advisor
2012 - Current European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) - Fungi (Database on Diagnostic expertise). https://dc.eppo.int/laboratory/viewlab Organisation Européenne et Mediterranéenne pour la Protection des Plantes, France
2019 - 2019 EFSA - Content advisor : taxonomy and common nomenculature of plant diseases in: Scanning for Plant Health: report on 2017-2020 activities European Food Safety Authority, Italy
2011/03/31 - 2011/03/31 Auditoria European Commission DG (SANCO) /2011/6076 FVO general follow-up mission to Portugal (Reg 882 issues -Plant health). Gabinete de Planeamento e Políticas, MADRP

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Organismos de Quarentena na Floresta Portuguesa - collaboration In: Unidade Curricular de Gestão Integrada de Pragas e Doenças Florestais - Forestry and Natural Resources Master and Degree - ISA UL (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2016/04/12 - 2016/04/14 ANSES, Nancy - Training School on Detection and Diagnosis of Gibberella circinata Anses Laboratoire de la santé des végétaux, France
2002 - 2002 Forest diseases - “Forest entomology and pathology” ESACB

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2012/11/21 - 2012/11/21 Membro do júri do “Seminário” do Programa de Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal do ISA, da aluna Joana Margarida Cordeiro Henriques, subordinado ao tema “O carvão do entrecasco (Biscogniauxia mediterranea) no processo de perda de vigor do montado de sobro em Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal