1,187 search results for “group and plant studies” in the Staff website
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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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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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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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Daan ScheepersFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Welmer MolenmakerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sharon van GeldereFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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
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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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Intervision groups
Meet fellow lecturers in an intervision group to reflect on teaching practices together and gain new insights.
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
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Yujing TanFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Shirley AlexanderFaculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Xiao Luo
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Francesca Rosati
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Steven Hagers
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Xiong XiongFaculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
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Hyojin PakFaculty of Humanities
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Expert groups
There are four expert groups within the project. Each is working on one of the following themes which are of importance to students with disabilities, and for which Leiden University wants to increase accessibility.
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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
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
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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
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Zhen Wang
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Kiki SpaninksScience
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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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Peng SunScience
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Peiyan QinScience
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Maaike Smit-BeemsterboerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Green makeover for Gorlaeus Building courtyards: work in progress
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Martijn BezemerScience
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