773 search results for “politics in plant” in the Staff website
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Thijs Vos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Honorata Mazepus
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation of plant functional traits on global scales
PhD defence
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Karolina Pomorska
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Amy Verdun
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ellen Cieraad
Science
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Laura Julia Zantis
Science
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Jan Meijer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Daan van den Wollenberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nicolas Blarel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Alex Schilin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Cynthia van Vonno
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Rebecca Ploof
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Silke Herms
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Morena Skalamera
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
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Thomas Fossen
Faculty of Humanities
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Luc Verheij
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Pralay Kanungo
Faculty of Humanities
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Tom Barkhuysen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…
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Müge Kinacioglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Petr Kopecky
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Calcium-dependent regulation of auxin transport in plant development
PhD defence
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Floris Mansvelt Beck
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Josh Robison
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dennis Bos
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Kuhn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Maria Spirova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jonathan Phillips
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marijn Nagtzaam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Denny van der Vlist
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elina Zorina
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aleksandra Khokhlova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Kathleen Brown
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tim Mickler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Frank de Zwart
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dorota Mokrosinska
Faculty of Humanities