News of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology
News of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology
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The viability of Seeds for the Future
- No seeds, no agriculture—it's a universal truth. However, it took Professor Leónie Bentsink five years to convince her colleagues and the... -
Dutch Research Council funds research on interaction between microbes and seeds
- Microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, play an important role in nature. They help plants absorb nutrients and protect against diseases, for example.... -
ERC-grant for research on plant cytoplasmic inheritance
- The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a research grant to researcher Kin Pan Chung. He receives the ERC Starting Grant for his research on... -
Salty tomatoes, salty potatoes
- Excess salt in the soil hinders the growth of tomato and potato plants. However, if you manage to create good, salt-tolerant varieties, the flavour... -
Wet feet for soy
- Most soybean plants grow poorly in excessively wet soils. Sometimes there are varieties among them that cope better. How do they do it? -
Heat changes branching in cauliflower
- Cauliflower grows differently and slower in heat, creating a more open cauliflower. But which genes drive this process and how can we use the... -
Grains grow more erratically in drought
- Grains such as wheat and barley adjust their growth form in drought. Wilma van Esse, Associate Professor at the laboratory of Molecular Biology,... -
Wanted: good genes for crops
- Climate change forces plants and agricultural crops to cope with increasingly extreme conditions, such as heat, drought, salinization, and waterlogged... -
Increasing soil salinity: new discovery may help make crops more resilient
- Salination causes harvests to fail across the globe. Plants die, or their growth is stunted. Researchers of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)... -
Building bridges between science and society: WUR launches podcast on CRISPR-Cas
- To what extent can and should you tinker with the genetic building blocks of crops? These and other questions are addressed in Wageningen University...