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🙌 Breakthrough in the fight against devastating banana diseases: first resistant plant developed 🍌 Professor of #phytopathology Gert Kema: “This is of great importance for the future of banana farming” 👉 #TR4 #blacksigatoka #plantbreeding

RT @ResourceWUR: BABETTE is een geavanceerde camera die planten niet in 3D, maar 4D kan filmen. Dat maakt het mogelijk om time lapses van #…

👩‍🔬 Academics from WUR and @niooknaw will be conducting research into the seed microbiome to discover how it helps improve seed quality and plant growth 🔬 @NWOFunding is funding the project 👉

💡🌱 Creating optimal conditions for crops with #VerticalFarming requires high levels of energy consumption. “Adopting a more dynamic approach can significantly reduce costs while plant development remains the same or even improves” says @LeoMarcelis 👉

📊Moeite om de juiste #statistiek voor jouw onderzoek te vinden of toe te passen? Ga eens op speeddate met Biometris! Op 22 oktober kun je tijdens een consultancymiddag op @WUR campus 'speeddaten' met een wiskundeknobbel 👉

🥒🍅 Become a professional greenhouse grower with Kassim the Game! For a period of four weeks, this game is available to a wider audience. How do you grow tomatoes or cucumbers in a greenhouse as efficiently as possible, while saving energy? 💡 Find out 👉

RT @ResourceWUR: In heel oude planten, opgeslagen in oude bodemlagen, zitten misschien nuttige genen die #gewassen bijvoorbeeld ziektebeste…

🎓🌿 The Executive Board has named Nick van Eekeren Professor by special appointment for Regenerative Grassland Systems in the Farming Systems Ecology chair group of WUR: "Grasslands have more functions than many people think" 👉

🙌 Congratulations Kin Pan Chung! He has received a @ERC_Research Starting Grant for his research on the inheritance of cytoplasmic genomes 👏 Read more about his research 👉

🙆‍♀️ Excitement is mounting in the greenhouses of WUR! 5 teams from across the globe have embarked on the next phase of the Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge. The task? To cultivate dwarf tomatoes completely autonomously, without human intervention 🍅 #AI 👉

🎓 Stef de Haan has been named professor by special appointment in the new chair Seed Systems and Agrobiodiversity: "I hope that our research can make a difference for the global rural population, particularly for the more disadvantaged farmers." 👩‍🌾👉

👨‍🔬 Due to his retirement, Richard Visser steps down as chair group leader and head of #PlantBreeding at WUR 🥔 What 5 milestones come to mind when Visser looks back on his successful academic career? Read the interview and find out! 👉

📆 Producing #livestock has a large ecological footprint, especially feed production. Can we replace soy and fishmeal with a sustainable protein source, like insects? 🐛 Find out 12 sept at the #symposium on insects as sustainable feed! Info & registry 👉

🗓️Join us at the AI for Agro-Food Lab Spotlight event! On 4 Sept, we will delve into groundbreaking research on smart crop and animal sensing, intelligent control and decision-making and robotic handling. You can join at WUR or online! See all info 👉

💚 After working at WUR for over 40 years, Chris de Visser recently retired as manager of Field Crops. He feels that more tailor-made solutions are needed to create a future perspective for Dutch #agriculture while reducing environmental impact 🚜👉

🪲 Welke rol spelen insecten in de voedselproductie van de toekomst? Ontdek het 28 sept in @Junushoff! Er is een kookshow en een kinderuniversiteit, waar kinderen alles kunnen vragen aan professoren. Een kaartje is niet nodig! Alle info 👉 @Ouwehand_Zoo

RT @WUR: #Eten 🌾🧑‍🌾 | Voor het derde jaar op rij wordt er minder voedsel geproduceerd in Nederland. Maar met de caloriezekerheid zit het we…

👏 Congratulations Bregje Wertheim! As of 1 Sept, she is the new Chairholder of the Laboratory of #Entomology at WUR. Wertheim will be the successor of Marcel Dicke, who is almost retiring 🪲👉

It's World Mosquito Day! #Mosquitoes may be annoying when they keep you from your sleep, but a much more pressing problem is that they spread diseases such as #malaria, #Zika or West Nile Virus 🤒 That is why we research them at WUR 👉