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Date:Oct. 12, 2020 Category:Regulations
It will prove difficult to achieve the European Green Deal goals if the current stringent EU-legislation on the continuation of new breeding technologies such a...
Date:Jun. 16, 2020 Category:Science&Research
Together with Wageningen University & Research and the Delft University of Technology, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest almost 25 million euros in r...
Date:Jan. 14, 2020 Category:Viewpoint & Interview
It seems so logical: each plant carries chloroplasts that contribute to the optimum growth and development of the plant. At least that is what has always been a...
Date:Nov. 28, 2019 Category:Regulations
The EU and the Dutch government accord preference to biological agents that work on the basis of micro-organisms and insects. However, new research reveals that...
Date:Sep. 17, 2019 Category:Markets
For the second time around, international teams will be growing vegetables in a WUR greenhouse controlled entirely by artificial intelligence and sensors – wit...
Tags:Fruits and Vegetables
Date:Aug. 13, 2019 Category:Science&Research
Statisticians at the Wageningen University & Research institute Biometris have developed a model that can predict the yield of many maize varieties in different...
Date:May. 27, 2019 Category:Companies
Erik Fyrwald, boss of the agrochemical and seed company Syngenta, asked Louise Fresco to become an independent, non-executive director of his company.
Date:May. 21, 2019 Category:Science&Research
The recently appointed professor with a personal chair Luisa Trindade breeds crops for the biobased economy. Following her motto ‘no waste’, she aims at using...
Date:Apr. 17, 2019 Category:Viewpoint & Interview
How can vertical farming contribute to (inter)national food production? This question is more complex than it initially seems.
Date:Mar. 29, 2019 Category:Viewpoint & Interview
Farmers in African countries lose up to 50 percent of their potential yield due to bad seed or even ‘fake seed’.
Date:Jan. 28, 2019 Category:Science&Research
One to two per cent of the population has Coeliac Disease (CD), an immune reaction to gluten. Wheat grains contain gluten, a mixture of glutenin and gliadin pro...
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Date:Nov. 20, 2018 Category:Science&Research
The Wageningen University & Research Professor Robert David Hall received the Nils Foss Excellence Prize for his pioneering research in plant metabolomics – de...
Date:Sep. 5, 2018 Category:Science&Research
Wageningen University & Research uses computer models to develop sustainable management strategies in the control of potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora ...
Date:Aug. 16, 2018 Category:Science&Research
Tuesday 14 August will mark the start of the Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge as five international teams try to grow cucumbers at a distance with the use of ar...
Date:Jul. 2, 2018 Category:Viewpoint & Interview
The Netherlands should develop a national programme for Integrated Pest Management, to communally harmonize crop protection efforts and empower farmers.
Date:Jun. 21, 2018 Category:Regulations
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) should “normally” decide on the future of the so-called new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) before the summer break in J...
Tags:Gene Editing
Date:Jun. 14, 2018 Category:Science&Research
In the framework of the BioSolar Cells programme, a joint project between Wageningen University & Research and Solynta explored the possibilities to improve pho...
Date:Apr. 18, 2018 Category:Science&Research
A wild tomato species from the Galapagos Islands has been discovered by scientists from Wageningen University & Research to be resistant to a wide range of pest...
Tags:TraitFruits and Vegetables
Date:Feb. 20, 2018 Category:Science&Research
Experts in plant pathology from Wageningen University & Research have published new research results that are so remarkable and unexpected that they will requir...
Date:Nov. 13, 2017 Category:Science&Research
Scientists from Wageningen University & Research have found natural genetic variation for photosynthesis in plants and are unravelling it to the DNA level. As a...
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