News of the Biosystematics Group

Cabbage whites triggered egg-killing leaf necrosis in crucifers

Until now, little was known about how plants protect themselves from plant-eating insects and how the arms race between insects and plants unfolded....

Three Wageningen scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research

How plants arm themselves against salt, the origin of Surinamese rice, and a project on the influence plants and clouds have on each other: three...

Crickets were the first to chirp 300 million years ago

An international team, led by Dr Sabrina Simon (Wageningen University & Research) and Dr Hojun Song (Texas A&M), succeeded in tracing the...

Researchers WUR closer to solving the mysteries of insect evolution

From grasshoppers to roaches and stoneflies: Polyneoptera was the only major lineage of winged insects with an unresolved evolutionary history...