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Ben Scheres appointed as special professor Applied Plant Developmental Biology
| The executive board has appointed prof. dr. Ben Scheres as Special Professor Applied Plant Developmental Biology at the Plant Sciences Group of... -
Plant signals activate stem cells to regenerate tissue after being damaged
| Regeneration of plants from dividing cells is a key process in agriculture. Horticulturists use it to grow new plants from small cuttings. -
How do plant cells know in which direction to divide?
| Wageningen University & Research scientists have found an answer to a fundamental question botanists have been asking for over a century: how do... -
Groundwork for playing with the architecture of plants
| Growing tomatoes at the same height so that they can be easily picked by a harvesting robot. Growing deeper roots where the soil is dry. These types... -
PLT Targets Guide Growth and Differentiation
| Santuari et al. (The Plant Cell, pages 2937–2951) reveal how the PLT gradient regulates cell state by region-specific induction of cell...