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Sixty mathematicians solve puzzles submitted by companies - How do you weigh turkeys without lifting them? How do you control traffic in the city of the future? These were two of the challenges that... -
Wageningen Summer School on Greenhouse Horticulture 2019 - From 25 August until 6 September 2019 the Horticulture and Product Physiology group and Wageningen Plant Research will give the Wageningen Summer... -
Towards sustainable and safe vegetable cultivation in Saudi Arabia - In many Arab countries the conditions for growing vegetables are difficult. Heat and drought make it almost impossible to realize high productions. In... -
Wheat can be made gluten safe for people with coeliac disease by using gene editing - One to two per cent of the population has Coeliac Disease (CD), an immune reaction to gluten. Wheat grains contain gluten, a mixture of glutenin and... -
Greenhouse growers want to get rid of Fusarium - Fusarium causes a lot of greenhouse growers headaches. The fungus ensures that crops such as lettuce, tomato or phalaenopsis become ill or even die.... -
Functional biodiversity with soilborne fungi to suppress greenhouse pests - Pests and diseases are often suppressed by various species of natural enemies and antagonists that naturally occur in cropping systems. Stimulating... -
Researchers WUR closer to solving the mysteries of insect evolution - From grasshoppers to roaches and stoneflies: Polyneoptera was the only major lineage of winged insects with an unresolved evolutionary history... -
New book published: Greenhouse horticulture - Technology for optimal crop production - How to make 'optimal' choices about technology, for instance when it comes to shoot and root environment or vertical farming? 'Greenhouse... -
New book published: Greenhouse horticulture - Technology for optimal crop production - This book provides an integrated approach to crop growth and development and the technical aspects of greenhouse cultivation and climate... -
Improved crops can double European agriculture production - Wageningen University & Research is working within the CropBooster-P EU project on a roadmap to make agricultural crops future-proof. These crops...
