Congratulations to Maria Bento who defended on September 16th her Master’s Thesis in Ecology of the Department of Life Sciences – UC under the CULTIVAR program.
Entitled “Novel bacterial rate isolated from kiwi fruit leaves- phenotypic and genomic attributes”, the Dissertation was developed at the Microbiology Laboratory of the Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet of the Department of Life Sciences – UC and Fitolab – Laboratory of Plant Health of the Pedro Nunes Institute under the guidance of researchers at the Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet Igor Tiago and Joana Costa.
![](https://icultivar.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Noticia_15A-1.jpg)
![](https://icultivar.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Noticia_15B-1-768x1024.jpg)