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Dynamic environmental control for more efficient vertical farming
September 25, 2024 - Vertical farming is the practice of growing plants in vertically stacked layers in a building. This makes it possible to grow vegetables close to... -
Kassim the Game: in the virtual shoes of a greenhouse grower
September 12, 2024 - How do you grow tomatoes or cucumbers in a greenhouse as efficiently and energy-efficiently as possible? That’s the key question in Kassim the... -
Professor of Regenerative Grassland Systems: 'Grasslands have more functions than many people think'
September 10, 2024 - The Executive Board has appointed Nick van Eekeren Professor by special appointment for Regenerative Grassland Systems in the Farming Systems Ecology... -
ERC-grant for research on plant cytoplasmic inheritance
September 5, 2024 - The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a research grant to researcher Kin Pan Chung. He receives the ERC Starting Grant for his research on... -
Teams from around the world tackle autonomous dwarf tomato cultivation in Bleiswijk
September 4, 2024 - Excitement is mounting in the greenhouses of Wageningen University & Research in Bleiswijk: five teams from across the globe have embarked on the... -
New chair: Seed systems and agrobiodiversity
September 2, 2024 - Stef de Haan has been appointed professor by special appointment in Seed Systems and Agrobiodiversity at Wageningen University & Research.... -
'Making Dutch agriculture more sustainable requires tailor-made solutions'
August 27, 2024 - After working at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) for more than 40 years, Chris de Visser retired as manager of the Field Crops business... -
Bregje Wertheim new Chairholder Laboratory of Entomology
August 21, 2024 - As of 1 September, research associate Bregje Wertheim has been appointed Chairholder of the Laboratory of Entomology at Wageningen University &... -
New mRNA vaccines appear safe
July 25, 2024 - mRNA vaccines contain instruction codes for making parts of pathogenic viruses. Can so called self-amplifying types of such vaccines form unwanted and... -
Greenhouse competition: teams spend summer building algorithm that will control greenhouse autonomously
July 15, 2024 - Which team will develop the best algorithm to enable a greenhouse to grow dwarf tomatoes independently? That is the focus of this year's Autonomous...
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