Dr. Yang Song from @UUBeta explains how growing genetically identical #potato #seed #tubers does not necessarily lead to identical yields. In this video, she explains the role of #microbes in predicting the quality of seed tubers (potato #vigour):

Justin Stewart (@thecrobe) from @VUamsterdam talks about mycorrhizal fungi: what they are, why they're important and much more. Watch the video here: #mycorrhiza #fungi #mushrooms #plants #microbiome #agriculture #mapping #conservation #ecology #ecuador

RT @HarroBouwmeest1: Join the growing @UvA_Science @SILS_UvA Plant Hormone Biology team working on the mechanisms driving the plant-microb…

Kris de Kreek, MiCRop-associated #PhD at @WUR, talks about his #research in which he studies the role of the #microbiome in #plant-#insect interactions. Watch the video here (Dutch audio, English subs available):

Dr. Rahul Jain (@RJmicrobe) from @UvA_Amsterdam shows how he studies the role of #microbes when #plants experience #stress, in this case from #nitrogen. Watch the video here: @SILS_UvA @UvA_Science

2nd #fieldwork campaign of Darío X. Ramírez in North #Ecuador to find out how native #soils acquire resistance to #potato blight (caused by Phytophthora infestans). #Experiment ongoing, results expected early next year! @niooknaw @UniUtrecht @UUBeta

The first SynCom expirment is underway @WUR Lab of #Entomology! PhD-students Marcela Aragon Gomez and Zulema Carracedo are studying #bacterial strains which are more abundant in the #cabbage rhizosphere during #aphid infestation, #drought stress, or both.

In her most recent #publication, Prof. dr. @KiersToby delves into the mechanisms that #legumes have evolved in their symbiosis with #rhizobia. The many types of interactions between them will amaze you! Published in @Nature Microbiology, available here:

Dr. Yang Song of @UniUtrecht recently published an article explaining how the seed tuber #microbiome predicts #potato vigor. Julian visited Utrecht on Wednesday to #interview her about the paper. News article and #video coming up!

📢NEW PhD POSITION: Beneficial Seeds Microbes 📍NIOO-KNAW (Wageningen) 🕑32-38h per week ⌛Initially 1 year, upon satisfactory performance prolonged to 4 years ⏰DEADLINE: 10 January 2025 Apply here: #vacancy #microbiology #microbiome #seed #plantscience

👉NEW POSTDOC POSITION in Bioinformatics: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere 📍Utrecht University/Wageningen University & Research 🕛32-40h per week ⏰DEADLINE: 13 January 2025 Apply here:

RT @Corne_Pieterse: We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @ArsheedSheikh at Utrecht University. Please appl…

Dr. Toby Kiers (@KiersToby) and Dr. Adriana Corrales (@adri_corrales33) visited colleagues at CIAT in Colombia during COP16 and were given a tour of CIAT’s impressive collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi species. #COP16 #COP16Colombia #CIAT #AMF #fungi

Registrations are open for the "#bioinformatics in #foodscience symposium" on February 24, 2025, in Wageningen. For more info and registrations, use the following link:

Members of our consortium have joined the protest in The Hague against budget cuts in higher education. We support their cause sincerely. #onderwijs #wetenschap #onderzoek #bezuinigingen #denhaag #demonstratie #protest

MiCRop has 6 researchers in #HighlyCited2024 according to Clarivate Analytics! Congratulations to @HarroBouwmeest1 (@UvA_Amsterdam), @Corne_Pieterse and Bas E. Dutilh (@UniUtrecht), @marnixmedema (@WUR), Jos Raaijmakers and @PaolinaGarbeva (@niooknaw)!

Scientists from @WUR developed a new and efficient method for profiling nutritional and toxic elements in plant tissues. This new method, based on X-ray fluoresence (XRF), is cost-effective, rapid, and suitable for detecting light elements (like sodium)

Full bellies and smiling faces at Restaurant San Siro to celebrate 5 years of MiCRop (and 5 more years!). A night filled with great food and drinks, reconnecting with old friends, sharing memories and stories, and goodbyes for some. Here's to another 5 years of our consortium!

RT @HarroBouwmeest1: Together with @MiCRop_research consortium to celebrate the end of the 1st 5 years and the start of 5 more exciting yea…

RT @MicroHealth_KIC: Do you want to support the transition from animal-based to plant-based protein? Then join the "Plant the Future-Diner"…