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Rose reveals its secrets to researchers of Wageningen
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Scientists from Wageningen University & Research and their international colleagues have successfully produced a high-quality reference genome for...
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Development of an integrated weed management strategy
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Integrated weed management (IWM) is the way to go for sustainable and resilient agriculture. The project IWMPRAISE aims to support and promote IWM in...
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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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Plants respond better to overdoses of light than expected
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Plants are damaged when they receive too much sunlight. Researchers from Wageningen and Lithuania have discovered how the internal protection system...
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Fifteen international teams registered for Autonomous Greenhouses challenge
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Fifteen teams have registered to participate in the Autonomous Greenhouses challenge organised in the research greenhouses of the WUR in Bleiswijk by...
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Honeybee winter mortality same as last year
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Approximately the same numbers of honeybees survived the winter in the Netherlands as last year. This year around 84% of the honeybees came through...
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New analysis of research results: organic agriculture less productive than conventional agriculture
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In February this year, scientists from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and other institutes published an article about...
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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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Europe uses Dutch calculation model for risk assessment of pesticides in food
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will be using a Dutch calculation model, which maps the risks posed to consumers by the cumulative exposure...
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South Africa: unlimited possibilities to produce in greenhouses
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In the FDOV programme of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs the SMART Horticulture project investigated the potentials of South Africa to produce...