News of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology
News of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology
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Increasing soil salinity: new discovery may help make crops more resilient
February 27, 2024 - News - 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
December 4, 2023 - News - To what extent can and should you tinker with the genetic building blocks of crops? These and other questions are addressed in Wageningen University... -
Microalgae: environmental cleaners of greenhouse water
February 23, 2023 - News - Greenhouses, like many other industries, need to reduce their freshwater demand and CO2 footprint. By growing microalgae in the drain water of... -
Dutch cabinet invests €42 million in CROP-XR institute for faster development of resilient agricultural crops
April 14, 2022 - News - Over the next ten years, the Dutch government will invest 42 million euros in CROP-XR, a new, virtual institute aimed at developing agricultural crops... -
Fascinated by the resilience of seeds
April 12, 2022 - News - Seed research has long had a stuffy image, but Leónie Bentsink has been demonstrating for years how fascinating seeds are as a research... -
Clearance for 50 million euro programme proposal Plant-XR
September 22, 2021 - News - A revolutionary method to make crops more resilient to climate change and other threats is one step closer to becoming reality. A team of universities... -
How plants and trees stabilize their water pipes to grow taller
January 29, 2021 - News - Plants, especially trees, are by far the tallest organisms on Earth. Height growth is made possible by a specialized vascular system. This system... -
Three Wageningen scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research
October 29, 2020 - News - How plants arm themselves against salt, the origin of Surinamese rice, and a project on the influence plants and clouds have on each other: three...