Sonia Negrao

Employment

Employment history is unavailable.

Education

• ITQB-UNL PhD
  2003 - 2008

Projects & Funding

• VALID-HISPA: Validation of a New Deep Learning Approach for Hyperspectral Image Segmentation in Precision Agriculture Enterprise Ireland
  2026 - 2027
• AG-MICRO: Promoting Sustainable Agriculture through Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Plant interactions Science Foundation Ireland
  2025 - 2029
• “RecoBar-Recovering and Exploiting Old and New Barley Diversity for Future-Ready Agriculture ERA-NET
  2023 - 2025
• Harnessing the potential of underutilized crops to promote sustainable food production (DIVERSICROP) European Commission
  2023 - 2027
• CROPREVIVE: mapping underutilised crops in Ireland – past, present and future Irish Research Council
  2022 - 2024
• Looking into time- how abiotic stress impacts barley production and malting quality Science Foundation Ireland
  2019 - 2025
• Genetic approaches to discover novel components of salinity tolerance in the wild tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium KAUST
  2015 - 2018
• Exploring rice biodiversity: a genome-wide association (GWAS) study of salt-tolerance. Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
  2013 - 2014
• Environmental Gene Regulatory Interaction Networks in Rice. NSF
  2011 - 2015
• Breeding for salinity tolerance in rice and identification of key genes/proteins affecting seed set under salt stress Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
  2010 - 2013
• Analysis of the natural variability in rice (Oryza sativa L.) through EcoTILLING in salt and cold tolerance genes Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
  2008 - 2011
• EURIGEN-Genotyping for the conservation and valorization of European rice germplasm- AGRI GEN RES 049 European Commission
  2007 - 2010
• Transcription factors regulating abiotic stress responses in rice (Oryza sativa L.): a transgenic approach to improve tolerance, and search for novel players. Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
  2005 - 2008
• Studies for the improvement of rice produced in Portugal and Mozambique Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
  2000 - 2003
• Genetic approaches to discover novel components of salinity tolerance in the wild tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium KAUST- Competitive Research Grant Program Round 3

Publications (56)

• Rye (Secale cereale L.) revisited-nutritional composition, functional benefits, and role in sustainable diets.
  Frontiers in nutrition 2025 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1666455
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• Botanic Spectrum Analyser: A Deep Learning GUI for Plant Image Segmentation in Hyperspectral and RGB Phenotyping
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.14.676080
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• Environmental genomic selection to leverage polygenic local adaptation in barley landraces.
  Communications biology 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08045-4
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• A genomic variation map provides insights into potato evolution and key agronomic traits.
  Molecular plant 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2025.01.016
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• Assembly and comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genome in diploid potatoes
  Plant Cell Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-024-03326-4
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• Evaluating waterlogging stress response and recovery in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.): an image-based phenotyping approach
  Plant Methods 2024 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-024-01256-6
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• Editorial: Women in plant science - linking genome to phenome
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2024 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1454686
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• Deciphering salt stress responses in Solanum pimpinellifolium through high‐throughput phenotyping
  The Plant Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16894
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• Unlocking the genetic diversity and population structure of the newly introduced two-row spring European HerItage Barley collecTion (ExHIBiT)
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2024 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1268847
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• Advancements in Imaging Sensors and AI for Plant Stress Detection: A Systematic Literature Review
  Plant Phenomics 2024 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0153
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• Capturing crop adaptation to abiotic stress using image-based technologies
  Open Biology 2022 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.210353
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• Editorial overview: Plant biotechnology
  Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102733
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• Editorial: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Plant Responses to Climate Change
  Frontiers in Plant Science 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.876432
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• Phenotyping for waterlogging tolerance in crops: current trends and future prospects
  Journal of Experimental Botany 2022 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac243
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• Assessing Rice Salinity Tolerance: From Phenomics to Association Mapping
  Methods in Molecular Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1068-8_23
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• Genetic mapping of the early responses to salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Plant Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15310
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• Dissecting new genetic components of salinity tolerance in two-row spring barley at the vegetative and reproductive stages
  PLoS ONE 2020 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236037
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• Diverse traits contribute to salinity tolerance of wild tomato seedlings from the galapagos islands
  Plant Physiology 2020 DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.00700
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• Genetic mapping of the early responses to salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
  bioRxiv 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.02.324178
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• Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice
  Nature Plants 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0659-6
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