Duarte Manuel da Silva Mendonça. Completed the Doutoramento in AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES - GENETICS AND BREEDING in 2005/06/05 by Universidade dos Açores and Licenciatura in Agricultural Engineering in 1997/04 by Universidade dos Açores. Is Auxiliary Researcher in Universidade dos Açores - Campus de Angra do Heroísmo and Director in Universidade dos Açores Centro de Biotecnologia dos Açores. Published 29 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books and 1 book(s). Organized 1 event(s). Supervised 1 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 3. Co-supervised 1 MSc dissertation(s). Supervised 7 work(s) of course completion of LSc/BSc e co-supervised 2. Has received 2 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 1 project(s), Other in 2 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Post-doc Fellow in 3 project(s), Principal investigator in 5 project(s) and Researcher in 17 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries with emphasis on Plant Breeding and Plant Protection, Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agrarian and Food Biotechnology with emphasis on Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Biotechnology, Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Molecular Biology, Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Virology, Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agrarian and Food Biotechnology with emphasis on Diagnostics, Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agrarian and Food Biotechnology with emphasis on GM Technology and Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Biodiversity Conservation. In their professional activities interacted with 212 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Molecular phytopathology; Plant virology; Plant tissue culture; Plant transformation; Virus resistance; In vitro conservatin and propagation; Molecular characterization; Plant virus eradication; Azores; Next Generation Sequencing (NGS); Plant Protetion; Azorean Native Plants; ecological corridors; Rad-seq; Genetic diversity; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi;; Endemic plant; Native forest; Environmental factors; Temporal patterns; Root colonization; Spore density; Phylogeny; Picconia azorica; Endemic forest of Azores; AMF community composition; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Juniperus brevifolia; Native forests; Disturbance; Diversity; Azores; Endemism; Conservation; Population genetics; Molecular markers; SSR transferability; Transfere cells; Starchy cells; Maize endosperm; lignin; Flange ingrowths; Reticulate ingrowths; Cell growth analysis; Micropropagation; Endagered plant; Ecosystem restoration; Equine; Morphotype; SSR; Management; Endemism conservation; Germplasm management; Phylogeography; Theileria equi; cELISA; Nested PCR; Equus caballus; Myostatin; polymorphism; Malus domestica; Genetic relationships; Microsatallites; clustering analysis; Maremmano; Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris; Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa; genetic diversity; microsatellites; germplasm management; Vitis vinifera; Genotyping; Portugal; elimination of pathogens; detection of pathogens; tissue cultures; Prunus sp.; grapevine; stone fruit; virus resistance; Plum Pox Virus; Prunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus; Grapevine Fanleaf Virus; Arabis Mosaic Virus; Grapevine Virus A; Grapevine Virus B; Olea europaea; intra-varietal polymorphism; Austria; Stone fruits; PPV; Virus strain; ELISA; PCR; Olive; immunocapture-PCR; Plum pox virus; Prunus necrotic ringspot virus; Prune dwarf virus; Apple chlorotic leafspot virus; Plant Physiology; Fruit tee; Virus detection; Rosaceous Fruit Tree; Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Genetic improvement; Genetic engineering; Blackberry; Red raspberry ; Strawberry; Dam lines; Domestication; Lusitano breed; Mitochondrial DNA; Studbook; Local culti