466 search results for “plant effects” in the Student website
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Ellen Cieraad -
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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Tressia Chikodza -
Plants and planets
The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus botanicus on 7 February.
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Wei Ping Young -
Effects of Brexit
Are you a UK citizen currently or about to start studying at Leiden University? Or are you a Leiden University student (thinking of) studying abroad in the UK? Find out about the effects of Brexit.
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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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Kiki Spaninks -
Sofia Gomes -
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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Wild plants through the lens of a biologist
What started with an old Soviet camera and a darkroom in London grew into a lifelong passion. Developmental biologist Michael Richardson has been capturing nature - from wild coastal plants to microscopic details in the lab - since his childhood.
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Peng Sun -
Kevin Bretscher -
Farzad Aslani -
Mariana Gliesch Silva
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Han van Konijnenburg
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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…
- Switch-It-Up Wednesday: choose plant-based and sustainable in our cafés
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Paul KesslerFaculty of Science
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Plant-based party on campus: discover and enjoy during Meat and Dairy-Free Week
Facility, Organisation
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Emily Strange -
Pascal Nuijten -
Kimber Zonneveld -
What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz
Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.
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Nienke Beets -
Sofie Rasmussen -
Isabel Siles Asaff -
Jiaxin Zhang -
Salma Balazadeh -
Willeke Mulder -
Pingtao Ding -
Heidi RooijakkersAdministration and Central Services
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Roderick Bouman -
This is the library you did not know you had been looking for
2,240 plant extracts from 1,299 different plant species of Dutch origin. That’s the collection of the Dutch Extract Library, which has recently been transferred to the Institute of Biology Leiden. To plant biologist and contact person for this library Pingtao Ding this is a true treasury. ‘To bring…
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Koen van de Vrande -
Plants & Pencils – Botanical drawing workshop
Arts and culture
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Kees Libbenga
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Bert van Duijn -
Aleksandrina SkvortsovaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter van Bodegom -
Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started thanks to funding from the Dutch Research Council's KIC research programme.
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Yixu Wang -
AI Lab launched for effective and responsible supervision
How can you increase the effectiveness of inspectors using responsible artificial intelligence (AI)? This is the question the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) Lab AI4Oversight is tackling. By developing algorithms and methods, they try to provide optimal support for, for example,…
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Young Hae Choi -
Bertie van Heuven
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Alex Bos -
Chuqing Su