158 search results for “plants” in the Student website
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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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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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Ellen CieraadScience
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
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Adam OssowickiScience
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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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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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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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Nadia SoudzilovskaiaScience
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Martijn BezemerScience
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Dian Triastari ArmandaScience
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Peng SunScience
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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Kevin BretscherScience
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Marieke ElfferichScience
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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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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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
Facility
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Jiaxin ZhangScience
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Emily StrangeScience
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Pascal NuijtenScience
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Tinde van AndelScience
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Han van Konijnenburg
Science
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Natali Rianika MustafaScience
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Xinya PanScience
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Frederic LensScience
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Farzad AslaniScience
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Weilin HuangScience
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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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Chenguang GaoScience
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Sylvia de PaterScience
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Sandra IrmischScience
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Paul KesslerScience
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Roderick BoumanScience
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Nienke BeetsScience
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Peter van BodegomScience
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Geeske LangejansFaculteit Archeologie
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Salma BalazadehScience
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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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Pingtao DingScience
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Chao DuScience
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ASCL Seminar: Plotting human-plant futures in Uganda
Lecture
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Exhibition Aquatic and riparian plants from Flora Batava
Exhibition
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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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LUCIR Talk: Protecting Nuclear Power Plants During War: Implications from Ukraine
Lecture
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Botanical drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure