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Fifteen international teams registered for Autonomous Greenhouses challenge
- Fifteen teams have registered to participate in the Autonomous Greenhouses challenge organised in the research greenhouses of the WUR in Bleiswijk by... -
Honeybee winter mortality same as last year
- Approximately the same numbers of honeybees survived the winter in the Netherlands as last year. This year around 84% of the honeybees came through... -
Symbiotic virus of parasitic wasps protects wasps and plants, but also betrays the wasps to their enemies
- Viruses in parasitic wasps – which are used in biological pest control of the caterpillars of cabbage butterflies – protect the wasp... -
New analysis of research results: organic agriculture less productive than conventional agriculture
- In February this year, scientists from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and other institutes published an article about... -
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... -
Europe uses Dutch calculation model for risk assessment of pesticides in food
- The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will be using a Dutch calculation model, which maps the risks posed to consumers by the cumulative exposure... -
Improving all-year availability of safe and fresh vegetables in Ghana
- Ghana knows temporal shortage of fresh (fruit) vegetables, leading to high prices for the poor and hence under-consumption. Also the use of pesticides... -
South Africa: unlimited possibilities to produce in greenhouses
- In the FDOV programme of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs the SMART Horticulture project investigated the potentials of South Africa to produce... -
'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’.... -
Children with malaria emit specific odour that attracts more malaria mosquitoes
- Malaria parasites in the body of children with malaria enhance the production of some specific smells that are emitted through the skin. These smells...
