1,023 search results for “gene and plants studies” in the Staff website
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Phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation of plant functional traits on global scales
PhD defence
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Ellen CieraadScience
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
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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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live longer? Leiden physicist makes discovery in protective layer in genes
With the aid of physics and a minuscule magnet, researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA. Telomeres are sometimes seen as the key to living longer. They protect genes from damage but get a bit shorter each time a cell divides. If they become too short, the cell dies. The new discovery…
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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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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
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Advocating for gene therapies for rare diseases
‘If we don’t start talking about this, who else will?’ This is what Arjan Lankester, paediatrician/immunologist at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Professor of Paediatrics, thought when it seemed that various extremely effective gene therapies for rare diseases would no longer be available…
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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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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Channa LiFaculty of Humanities
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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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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time
There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study. The results of the study were recently published in Nature Neuroscience.
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Nettle workshop: fiber, nutrition and stories
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Making cards: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Xiao LuoFaculty of Humanities
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
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Shirley Alexander
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Yujing TanFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Xiong XiongFaculty of Humanities
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Jurre KnoestFaculty of Humanities
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Aihua Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Hyo Jin PakFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Dian Triastari ArmandaScience
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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Peng SunScience
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Kevin BretscherScience
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Marieke Elfferich
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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Pao-Yi YangFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike Smit-BeemsterboerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Martijn BezemerScience
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Edegar Da Conceição SavioFaculty of Humanities
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Arfi ArfiansyahFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid