Excursion
Food crops: from wild species to tasty vegetables
With the help of plant expert Roel Lemmens, we explore the wild relatives of our vegetables and other food crops. How did supermarket vegetables evolve from such plants? The excursion concludes with a tour of the CGN-Plant gene bank, where the diversity of plant genetic resources is safeguarded.
Everyone is welcome! Pre-registration is not necessary.
We will gather at 14:00 at the Wageningen Student Farm, The Field (past Vitae). There we will look at a number of cultivated vegetables, and then walk across campus for wild relatives of those vegetables. We will finish then with a visit to the CGN plant gene bank (behind Radix).