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Plants respond to future enemies

10:07u 28 February 2013 - Researchers discover new defence mechanism.

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Dutch rose farmers in Africa not so green

13:04u 14 February 2013 - Too much artificial fertilizer, energy and pesticide.
Greenhouse workers often ill-informed.

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Plants prevent fitness loss by caterpillars

9:13u 14 February 2013 - Brassica nigra plants accelerate seed production when butterflies drop their eggs on the leaves of the plant. In this way the plants effectively defend themselves against the herbivores, state Wageningen entomologists this week in Functional Ecology.

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Breakthrough in developing salt-tolerant crops

12:27u 3 November 2012 - PhD researcher Nguyen Viet Long has discovered gene packs in barley which make this crop salt tolerant. This knowledge can also be applied to wheat and rice. Long obtained his doctorate yesterday.

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Plant gives offspring organic pesticide

14:44u 31 October 2012 - The seeds of Pyrethrum, a daisy-like flower, get compounds from the parent plant that protect them against soil fungi and insects. The plant produces the organic pesticide in its trichomes.

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Cabinet: Cisgenesis just as safe as traditional breeding

6:45u 25 October 2012 - Cisgenesis should not be subjected to European legislation for genetically modified crops, says the Dutch parliament. This new breeding technique is just as safe as classical breeding.

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Breeder can minimize ecological risks of GMOs

6:50u 23 October 2012 - Transgenes from GM crops can end up in wild relatives of these crops via crossing. But the chances of this happening very much depend on where in the genome of the plant the new gene is introduced, according to research at Plant Breeding.

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‘Plant research concentrated in Wageningen’

6:03u 5 October 2012 - Development biologist Ben Scheres moved from Utrecht to Wageningen in September. A logical choice, he says, because plant research is concentrated in Wageningen.

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Tomatoes will soon be resistant to whitefly

10:12u 12 September 2012 - In two years' time, tomatoes will be resistant to whitefly, a persistent louse that also damages other vegetables. That is thanks to PhD student Syarifin Firdaus, who discovered two genes giving resistance to the louse.

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Potato test fields damaged

16:56u 16 August 2012 - Two Wageningen UR test fields have been damaged last month. These fields, used to test GM potatoes and other crops, are located in Lelystad and Valthermond.