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Projects - dr. HC (Lotje) van der Does

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  Arabidopsis targets of a Botrytis toxin

  Botrytis cinerea is an important necrotrophic fungal pathogen. It kills host cells by production of effector proteins and phytotoxic metabolites. One...
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  Stop lily fire blight

  Botrytis elliptica is an important fungal disease of lilies. Massive amounts of fungicides are applied in NL to control the disease. The fungus is...
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  Oomycete cytoskeleton dynamics

  This project offers a dive into the unknown molecular processes that underlie Phytophthora infection. Using cutting-edge technologies, you initiate or...
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  Does stress affect the seed microbiome?

  Plants cry for help to recruit beneficial microbes to increase their resilience against stress. Stress-mediated changes in the microbiome composition...
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  Molecular biology of banana Black Sigatoka disease

  Pseudocercospora fijiensis is the causal agent of Black Leaf Streak disease or Black Sigatoka Disease, the most destructive and costliest foliar...
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  How hitchhiking transposons influence genome organisation

  The plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum has a remarkable genome organization in which genes that are involved in infection of a particular...