227 search results for “plant effect” in the Student website
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Kick MoorsBestuursbureau
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Ellen CieraadScience
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
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Tressia ChikodzaScience
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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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Effects of Brexit
Are you a UK citizen currently or about to start studying at Leiden University? Or are you a Leiden University student (thinking of) studying abroad in the UK? Find out about the effects of Brexit.
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Sofie RasmussenScience
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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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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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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Kevin BretscherScience
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Marieke ElfferichScience
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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Peng SunScience
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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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Martijn BezemerScience
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Ine AlbertsBestuursbureau
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Tineke RutgersBestuursbureau
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Hester RuigendijkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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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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Janne van DoornFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aleksandrina SkvortsovaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Emily StrangeScience
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Jiaxin ZhangScience
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants
Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…
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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
Facility
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Frederic LensScience
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Tinde van AndelScience
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Farzad AslaniScience
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Weilin HuangScience
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Xinya PanScience
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Han van Konijnenburg
Science
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Isabel Siles AsaffScience
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Pascal NuijtenScience
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What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz
Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.
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Michiel van ElkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nienke BeetsScience
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Kim de JongFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gert-Jan LelieveldFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Making cards: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Sandra IrmischScience
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Paul KesslerScience
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Sylvia de PaterScience
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Roderick BoumanScience
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Chenguang GaoScience
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Plant cuttings fair
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt