Laboratory of Plant Physiology
The Laboratory of Plant Physiology of Wageningen University & Research aims to contribute to the understanding of how plants function. We are particularly interested in how plants respond to changes in their sometimes hostile environment.
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News
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Microalgae: environmental cleaners of greenhouse water
- 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
- 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
- Seed research has long had a stuffy image, but Leónie Bentsink has been demonstrating for years how fascinating seeds are as a research...
Courses
The Laboratory of Plant Physiology teaches plant physiology to 1st and 2nd year BSc Biology, Plant Sciences and Forest & Nature Conservation students. In addition, we contribute to a whole series of more specialized courses for 3rd year BSc, MSc and PhD students from several Study Programmes.
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Research
Important aspects in our research are the processes occurring in plants in response to a (changing) environment and the response of the plant to this environment. We study, for example, the effect of environmental factors on partitioning of metabolites between different organs (source-sink relationships) and the production of secondary metabolites involved in plant-insect interactions. Other examples are the regulation of quality control in protein processing during seed filling and the resource availability during germination and growth of the seedling. Genetics, natural variation, the analysis of plant hormones and other signaling molecules, and -omics technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are essential expertises used in our research.
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Latest publications
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Transcriptome analysis of the phosphate starvation response sheds light on strigolactone biosynthesis in rice
The Plant Journal (2023). - ISSN 0960-7412 - 16 p. -
Removal of nutrients from WWTP effluent by an algae-mussel trophic cascade
Ecological Engineering 190 (2023). - ISSN 0925-8574 - 10 p. -
Plasticity of maternal environment-dependent expression-QTLs of tomato seeds
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 136 (2023)2. - ISSN 0040-5752