534 search results for “gast and plant studies” in the Student website
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Eva GastFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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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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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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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
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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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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Xiao LuoFaculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
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Marat MarkertFaculty of Humanities
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Arie van der KooijFaculty of Humanities
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Kiyan ForoutanFaculty of Humanities
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Hélène Nut
Faculty of Humanities
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
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Irene HadiprayitnoFaculty of Humanities
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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…