Three Science articles in two weeks
For the second week in a row, research at Wageningen UR has been reported in the illustrious journal Science. Clever fungi can circumvent their host’s defence system by putting on a mask – the protein Ecp6. Scientists at Wageningen UR discovered this together with colleagues from Japan. On 20 August, they published their findings in Science.
It was the second week running that Wageningen UR research was reported in this leading journal. On 13 August, Science placed two articles written by Wageningen UR researchers. In one of these articles, researchers from Wageningen wrote that in fifteen years it could be technically possible and economically feasible to replace all fossil fuels in Europe with biofuels from algae. The same issue, on 13 August, also contained an article in which scientists from Wageningen, together with French and British colleagues, demonstrated that ‘who-eats-who' ecological networks of insects and plants are stable if they are built up from components that hardly interact with each other, whereas a strongly hierarchical structure is favourable to ‘who-pollinates-who' networks.