999 search results for “gain and plants studies” in the Staff website
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Ellen CieraadScience
e.cieraad@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
l.j.zantis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Tressia ChikodzaScience
t.chikodza@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus
Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…
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Sticky insects: plants protected with biological glue
Drained leaves and plants stripped bare. Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.
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Xinya PanScience
x.pan@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4791
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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
c.k.green@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2327
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope
Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasingly be able to adapt to survive. How do you make plants more stress-resistant? For this purpose, researchers from Leiden, along with other universities,…
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Channa LiFaculty of Humanities
c.li.6@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1766
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
p.h.dol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4687
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Yujing TanFaculty of Humanities
y.tan.5@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
b.c.a.walraven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
p.c.verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2910
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
h.omari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5025
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Shirley AlexanderFaculty of Humanities
s.l.alexander@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
a.emami@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272976
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
k.c.williams@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Xiao Luo
Faculty of Humanities
x.luo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities
f.rosati@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
s.j.hagers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Xiong XiongFaculty of Humanities
h.xiong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
g.n.cain@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers allows him to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which plants resist…
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Indonesian 'coffee plant' named after Leiden researcher
Research on Asian plants is his life's work. Now a crown is added to that: a plant from the coffee family bearing his name. Paul Kessler is LUF professor of botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia and Scientific Director of the Hortus botanicus. 'Completely unexpectedly, you get to see the results…
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
a.f.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2585
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
m.van.crevel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2211
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Living Labs and ‘pavement plants’: Leiden University’s contributions to biodiversity
Through various initiatives, Leiden University is trying to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity: the cultivation of a wide variety of micro-organisms, animals and plant species. This is important because in the Netherlands biodiversity has declined from about 40 percent in 1900 to about…
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
schultenordholt@kitlv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kiki SpaninksScience
k.spaninks@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4835
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Barbara GravendeelScience
b.gravendeel@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kevin BretscherScience
k.m.bretscher@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4384
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Marieke Elfferich
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m.elfferich@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5110
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
s.i.fernandes.gomes@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5118
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Peng SunScience
p.sun@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maaike Smit-BeemsterboerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.beemsterboer@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9143
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Martijn BezemerScience
t.m.bezemer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5158
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Edegar Da Conceição SavioFaculty of Humanities
e.da.conceicao.savio@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Arfi ArfiansyahFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.arfiansyah@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
c.fernandes.caromano@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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May Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
m.shaddel.basir@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory
‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’
For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.
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Adapt or perish – traits identified that help plants survive
PhD candidate Jianhong Zhou aimed to better understand whether and how plant species adapt to environmental changes. She developed two databases that she used to analyze how easily or difficultly plants adapt to changing conditions. Zhou defended her PhD thesis on 4 September.
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Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus
The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.
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Judith FrishmanFaculty of Humanities
j.frishman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marat MarkertFaculty of Humanities
m.markert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9934
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Eftychia MylonaFaculty of Humanities
e.mylona@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9962