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Heritage varieties: edible Dutch history
December 8, 2023 - What used to grow in your grandparents' vegetable garden? How did cucumbers taste 100 years ago? Many of the vegetables and grains that were once... -
‘Beware of blinders when discussing agriculture’
December 7, 2023 - Departing professor of Plant Production Systems Ken Giller will never argue solely for separating or combining nature and agriculture, nor between... -
Building bridges between science and society: WUR launches podcast on CRISPR-Cas
December 4, 2023 - To what extent can and should you tinker with the genetic building blocks of crops? These and other questions are addressed in Wageningen University... -
WUR appoints professors Farming Systems Ecology and Arbovirology and Medical Biotechnology
December 1, 2023 - Scientists Hannah van Zanten and Gorben Pijlman have been appointed professors at Wageningen University & Research. With their research they... -
Effective vaccine against cow parasite thanks to modification of sugar structures in plant
November 28, 2023 - Mimicking sugar structures in plants plays a crucial role in the development of effective vaccines against the stomach worm Ostertagia ostertagi. This... -
Scientist Paul Struik says goodbye: A career of learning about how crops grow
November 23, 2023 - "Abroad, they sometimes ask what crop I'm researching," says Professor of Crop Physiology Paul Struik. The question is typical in his field,... -
New database Dutch Names of Plant Diseases
November 20, 2023 - The new database Dutch Names of Plant Diseases was launched this week during a symposium of the Royal Netherlands Phytopathological Society (KNPV) in... -
WUR Agro Food Robotics programme embarks on next phase as Vision + Robotics
November 13, 2023 - In a strategic move to better align with the core mission and multidisciplinary expertise of the team, the Agro Food Robotics programme at Wageningen... -
Organic banana growers do not escape Panama disease
November 9, 2023 - The Chira Valley in Peru – one of the main regions for the cultivation of organic bananas – is being seriously affected by the dreaded... -
Financial allocation for research facilities at Wageningen University & Research
November 8, 2023 - The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has awarded approximately 40 million euros in the first funding round of the Facilities for...
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