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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How plants and trees stabilize their water pipes to grow taller
- 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
- 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...
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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Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments
Plant, Cell & Environment (2021). - ISSN 0140-7791 -
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics : a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices
Nature Methods : techniques for life scientists and chemists 18 (2021)7. - ISSN 1548-7091 - p. 747 - 756. -
Phenotyping tomato root developmental plasticity in response to salinity in soil rhizotrons
Plant Phenomics 2021 (2021). - ISSN 2643-6515