413 search results for “plant from” in the Student website
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Ellen Cieraad
Science
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Laura Julia Zantis
Science
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Exhibition Aquatic and riparian plants from Flora Batava
Exhibition
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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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Adam Ossowicki
Science
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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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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Dian Triastari Armanda
Science
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Kiki Spaninks
Science
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Peng Sun
Science
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Barbara Gravendeel
Science
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Kevin Bretscher
Science
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Marieke Elfferich
Science
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Sofia Fernandes Gomes
Science
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’
For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.
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Martijn Bezemer
Science
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Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus
The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.
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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
Facility
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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…
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Jiaxin Zhang
Science
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Emily Strange
Science
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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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Pascal Nuijten
Science
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Frederic Lens
Science
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Natali Rianika Mustafa
Science
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Tinde van Andel
Science
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Farzad Aslani
Science
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Weilin Huang
Science
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Xinya Pan
Science
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Han van Konijnenburg
Science
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Isabel Siles Asaff
Science
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Nienke Beets
Science
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Plant cuttings fair
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Plant cuttings fair
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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LUCIR Talk: Protecting Nuclear Power Plants During War: Implications from Ukraine
Lecture
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Roderick Bouman
Science
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Sandra Irmisch
Science
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Paul Kessler
Science
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Sylvia de Pater
Science
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Chenguang Gao
Science
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Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Nettle workshop: fiber, nutrition and stories
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Sabine Witting
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter van Bodegom
Science
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Making cards: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Well-being Wednesdays - Green fingers united: plant cuttings market
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Working in a living museum
Roderick Bouman is collection manager of the Leiden Hortus botanicus. He keeps track of which plants there are in the garden, where they come from and makes sure visitors can find the right information about them. ‘We are like a regular museum,’ says Bouman. ‘Except that our objects are alive. That…
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’Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’