• RICARDO SOARES, PAULA FARELEIRA, BELÉN COLAVOLPE, OSCAR A. RUIZ, ISABEL VIDEIRA e CASTRO (2023) Root nodule bacteria isolated from Lotus uliginosus for future use in phytostabilization of arsenic contaminated soils. Grass Research 3:8; https://doi.org/10.48130/GR-2023-0008. 
• MÁRCIA DE CASTRO SILVA, HELENA MACHADO, ISABEL VIDEIRA e CASTRO (2022) Soil microorganisms in montado: a strategy for adaptation to climate change. Revista de Ciências Agrárias 45 (4), 645-648; https://revistas.rcaap.pt/rca/article/view/28748/21434
• PAULA FARELEIRA, ISABEL VIDEIRA E CASTRO, RICARDO SOARES, SUSETE MATOS, LURDES ALMEIDA, ANA BARRADAS, ANA PAULA NUNES (2022) Cover crops for the improvement of soil microbiological properties in intensive horticultural production systems. Revista de Ciências Agrárias, 45 (4), 482-486; https://revistas.rcaap.pt/rca/article/view/28573/21398.
•  MAQUIA I., FARELEIRA P., CASTRO I.V., SOARES R., BRITO D., CHAÚQUE A.A.M., MÁGUAS C., EZEOKOLI O.T., RIBEIRO N. S., MARQUES I., RIBEIRO-BARROS A.I. (2021) The Nexus between Fire and Soil Bacterial Diversity in the African Miombo Woodlands of Niassa Special Reserve, Mozambique. Microorganisms 9, 1562; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081562. 
• Esteves C, Fareleira P, Castelo-Branco MA, Lopes IG, Mota M, Murta D, Menino R (2022). Black soldier fly larvae frass increases the soil’s residual nutrient content and enzymatic activity – a lettuce production trial. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 8(12), 1431-1440. https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2022.0005
• Veloso A, Sempiterno C, Calouro F, Rebelo F, Pedra F, Videira e Castro I, Gonçalves MC, Marcelo ME, Pereira P, Fareleira P, Jordão P, Mano R, Fernandes R (2022) Manual de Fertilização das Culturas. Coordenação de Fátima Calouro. Edição: INIAV.
• Maquia IS, Fareleira P, Videira e Castro I, Brito DRA, Soares R, Chaúque A, Ferreira-Pinto MM, Lumini E, Berruti A, Ribeiro NS, Marques I, Ribeiro-Barros AI (2020) Mining the microbiome of key species from African savanna woodlands: Potential for soil health improvement and plant growth promotion. Microorganisms 8: 9 (doi: 10.3390/ microorganisms8091291).
• Soares R, Trejo J, Lorite MJ, Figueira E, Sanjuán J, Videira e Castro I (2020) Diversity, phylogeny and plant growth promotion traits of nodule associated bacteria isolated from Lotus parviflorus. Microorganisms 8: 499 (doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8040499).
• Castro IV, Silva M, Colavolpe B, Machado H (2019) The potential of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the sustainability of agro-forestry ecosystems. In: Microbial Probiotics for Agricultural Systems. Advances in Agronomic Use, chapter 5, pp 71-82. (D Zúñiga, E Ormeño, F González-Andrés, eds). Springer.
• Lorite, MJ, Estrella MJ, Escaray FJ, Sannazzaro A, Castro IV, Monza J, Sanjuán J, León-Barrios M (2018) The rhizobia-Lotus symbioses: deeply specific and widely diverse. Front Microbiol 9: 2055 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02055).
• Castanheira N, Dourado AC, Pais I, Semedo J, Scotti-Campos P, Borges N, Carvalho G, Barreto Crespo MT, Fareleira, P (2017) Colonization and beneficial effects on annual ryegrass by mixed inoculation with plant growth promoting bacteria. Microbiol Res 198: 47-55.
• Castanheira N, Dourado AC, Kruz S, Alves PI, Delgado-Rodríguez AI, Pais I, Semedo J, Scotti-Campos P, Sánchez C, Borges N, Carvalho G, Barreto Crespo MT, Fareleira P (2016) Plant growth promoting Burkholderia species isolated from annual ryegrass in Portuguese soils. J Appl Microbiol 120: 724-39.
• Castro IV, Fareleira P, Ferreira E (2016) Nitrogen fixing symbioses in a sustainable agriculture. In: Plant, Soil and Microbes – Interactions and Implications in Crop Science, pp. 55-91 (KR Hakeem, MS Akhtar, SNA Abdullah, eds). Springer.
• Soares R, Arcos E, Ferreira E, Videira e Castro I (2016) Microbial inoculants with autochthonous bacteria for biodiverse legume pastures in Portuguese agro-forestry ecosystems. In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions (F González-Andrés, EK James, eds), pp 171–182. Springer.
• Soares R, Trejo J, Veloso MM, Castro IV (2016) Biological nitrogen fixation by Phaseolus vulgaris. Revista Ciências Agrárias 39: 526-537.

• Isolamento, identificação e caracterização de bactérias associadas a plantas (leguminosas e não leguminosas)
• Filogenética molecular
• Atividades enzimáticas do solo
• Testes de inoculação em plantas
• Avaliação in vitro e in vivo de atividades que promovem o crescimento das plantas
• Ensaios em estufa e em campo

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