News of the Biosystematics Group
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Dutch soybeans and polder rice: new crops in a changing climate
- Drier summers, wetter winters, higher temperatures and more frequent heavy downpours. Climate change is now a fact of life that is affecting global... -
Biodiversity Challenge spreads to the whole of Wageningen
- From 22 May, the search area of the Biodiversity Challenge covers the entire Wageningen municipality. WUR is hosting the event in collaboration with... -
"Come outside with us everyone, and we will search......"
- This is how an old Dutch song about the golden oriole begins. Jeroen Sluijsmans saw this bird in 2022, while cycling across campus with a South... -
Thousands of wow moments in campus nature
- WUR’s campus is home to many different species, as was shown during the Biodiversity Challenge that took place from 23 May until 1 June. The... -
Flora Batava 1800-1934: exhibition of key works of Dutch botany
- In June this year, a new edition of the key work of Dutch botany will be published including stories of Wageningen scientists. Special Collections... -
Marrons in Suriname merge rice's best properties
- Rice from Suriname tells a tale of smart crop farming with global colonial influences. Evolution biologist Marieke van de Loosdrecht has found... -
The tulip that went wild
- The Netherlands is known for its beautiful and colourful tulips. Though most tulips originate from the Ottoman empire, Tulipa sylvestris, the wild... -
Gene discovered crucial to making crop plants produce clonal seeds
- Researchers from KeyGene and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), in collaboration with colleagues from Japan and New Zealand, have discovered... -
“Cannabis labels often wrong and misleading”
- The well-known Indica and Sativa labels that are used on cannabis products and form the basis for the information provided to users of medicinal... -
Cabbage whites triggered egg-killing leaf necrosis in crucifers
- Until now, little was known about how plants protect themselves from plant-eating insects and how the arms race between insects and plants unfolded....