News of Plant Breeding
News
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More sustainable potato production through extended IPM for late blight
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Cultivation of, cisgenic or conventionally bred, late blight resistant potato varieties in combination with pathogen population monitoring and a...
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Concise booklet on new plant breeding techniques published
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Scientists of Wageningen University & Research have published a concise booklet that gives some new insights into several aspects of plant...
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'Paternal’ and ‘maternal’ DNA in fungi active at different times
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Many types of mushroom have two different nuclei in their cells, one from the ‘father’ and another from the ‘mother’....
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Close relative of the cultivated tomato is resistant to many insects
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A wild tomato species from the Galapagos Islands has been discovered by scientists from Wageningen University & Research to be resistant to a wide...
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Dutch government finances Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre
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On April 12, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Sciences announced the funding of Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) as part of...
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Online learning to switch careers
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What impact can online learning have on your career? This article describes the career switch of Jos Smallegange, who began his career in aquaculture...
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Apple genome sequence helpful to breeding of new apple varieties published
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A high quality genome sequence of apple is published in this week’s Nature Genetics by an international team of scientists, among which...
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Researchers from Wageningen University & Research publish detailed genetic map of roses
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A team of researchers from Wageningen University & Research, which includes breeding researchers and geneticists, has succeeded in creating a...
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How Chinese cabbage and white cabbage became alike
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White cabbage and Chinese cabbage have a lot in common: both have leaves that wrap tightly around each other to form a leafy head. Remarkably,...
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Dynamic regions of petunia genome responsible for variations in flower shape and colour
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Petunias come in many different varieties, which makes them popular bedding plants that appear in gardens and terraces during May and June. This...