News of Plant Breeding
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WUR joins new EU innovation project to increase resilience and quality of tomato varieties
October 6, 2020 - WUR-researchers will participate in the new EU research initiative HARNESSTOM. In this project breeding companies, scientists and farmers join forces... -
WUR studies wild potatoes for new pest-free potato varieties
May 14, 2020 - Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is to study wild potato varieties for resistance to a wide range of potato-diseases and plagues. This broad... -
Complex potato genome further unveiled
September 19, 2019 - Scientists from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and scale-up Solynta, the inventor of hybrid potato breeding, have published the most... -
Computer models provide new insights for sustainable control of potato late blight
September 4, 2018 - Wageningen University & Research uses computer models to develop sustainable management strategies in the control of potato late blight, caused by... -
Rose reveals its secrets to researchers of Wageningen
June 12, 2018 - Scientists from Wageningen University & Research and their international colleagues have successfully produced a high-quality reference genome for... -
'Paternal’ and ‘maternal’ DNA in fungi active at different times
April 17, 2018 - Many types of mushroom have two different nuclei in their cells, one from the ‘father’ and another from the ‘mother’.... -
Dutch government finances Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre
April 12, 2018 - On April 12, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Sciences announced the funding of Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) as part of...