News of Plant Breeding
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Closer cooperation with Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Cooperation between the Plant Sciences Group and Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS) in Zhengzhou is being intensified. Over the next few... -
WUR joins new EU innovation project to increase resilience and quality of tomato varieties
- WUR-researchers will participate in the new EU research initiative HARNESSTOM. In this project breeding companies, scientists and farmers join forces... -
WUR studies wild potatoes for new pest-free potato varieties
- Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is to study wild potato varieties for resistance to a wide range of potato-diseases and plagues. This broad... -
Complex potato genome further unveiled
- Scientists from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and scale-up Solynta, the inventor of hybrid potato breeding, have published the most... -
Computer models provide new insights for sustainable control of potato late blight
- Wageningen University & Research uses computer models to develop sustainable management strategies in the control of potato late blight, caused by... -
Expected ruling of European Court may offer opportunities for situation-specific safety analyses of new varieties
- A ruling on the interpretation of EU law concerning the genetic modification of plants is expected from the European Court of Justice at the end of... -
Rose reveals its secrets to researchers of Wageningen
- Scientists from Wageningen University & Research and their international colleagues have successfully produced a high-quality reference genome for... -
More sustainable potato production through extended IPM for late blight
- Cultivation of, cisgenic or conventionally bred, late blight resistant potato varieties in combination with pathogen population monitoring and a... -
Concise booklet on new plant breeding techniques published
- Scientists of Wageningen University & Research have published a concise booklet that gives some new insights into several aspects of plant... -
'Paternal’ and ‘maternal’ DNA in fungi active at different times
- Many types of mushroom have two different nuclei in their cells, one from the ‘father’ and another from the ‘mother’....