103 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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Ellen CieraadScience
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
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Adam OssowickiScience
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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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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Kevin BretscherScience
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Peng SunScience
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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Marieke ElfferichScience
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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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Tinde van AndelScience
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Natali Rianika MustafaScience
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Pascal NuijtenScience
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Han van Konijnenburg
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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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Sylvia de PaterScience
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Chenguang GaoScience
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Roderick BoumanScience
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Sandra IrmischScience
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Paul KesslerScience
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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
- Well-being Wednesdays - Green fingers united: plant cuttings market
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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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Botanical drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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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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Wood formation further explored by NWO-XL grant
Leiden researchers, Professor Remko Offringa and co-applicants Salma Balazadeh and Frederic Lens received an NWO-XL grant (2.5 million euros). Together with researchers in Wageningen and Groningen, they will study the genetic and environmental drivers of woodiness. From plant to molecule, the groups…
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What Darwin couldn’t see: Expedition to uncover invisible life in Galápagos
An international research team is to search for invisible life in the Galápagos Islands. The diversity of bacteria and other microscopic organisms may not be evident to the naked eye, but it is essential to nature. To the islands' giant daisies, for instance: unique endemic plants that are currently…
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P.J. VethNonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden
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Green islands around the University buildings to entice threatened insects
The number of insect species is plummeting, which is why the University is creating a more biodiverse environment around its buildings. Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, planted the first bee-friendly plants in the front garden of Oude UB on 20 September.