Humans share meaning through language. Over time, repeated interactions have shaped languages into forms that match our cognitive preferences, making them structured, expressive, easy to learn, and ultimately, meaningful.

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Maak een reis door de geschiedenis en de toekomst van het leven op aarde.

De missie van het Plant Sciences onderzoeksprogramma is om bij te dragen aan de duurzame productie van gewassen van hoge kwaliteit, bloemen en hoogwaardige producten met een biologische basis. Dit wordt gerealiseerd door het opdoen van fundamentele kennis over biologische processen omtrent de ontwikkeling…

Voor groep 4/5 basisschool.

In this thesis, the role of plant-mediated soil legacy effects in shaping aboveground plant-insect interactions was investigated.

Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.

Plants are colonized by an astounding number of microorganisms that can provide different life-support functions, including nutrient acquisition and protection against (a)biotic stresses like drought or pathogen attack.

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In this thesis, several aspects of software debugging from automated crash reproduction to bug report analysis and use of contracts have been studied.

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

The overall objectives of my thesis are to investigate the dynamics of the sorghum root microbiome and to explore the beneficial effects of the root microbiome on sorghum growth and stress tolerance.

Plant-microbe interaction resulted in different physio/chemical responses by host plant and interacting rhizobacteria.

In light of climate change, it is crucial to determine whether plant species can adapt to future climates to avoid extinction. Plants adapt to various conditions by altering their functional traits, such as leaf size or photosynthetic rate. Some traits appear linked and vary together between species,…

Soil biodiversity is of great importance for the maintenance of multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems.

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

Dit project onderzoekt de professionalisering van universiteitsbibliotheken in de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw, door de lens van het middeleeuwse handschriftenbezit. Met de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek als uitgangspunt werpt het licht op de veranderende praktijken rond het conserveren, behandelen…

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) has abundantly been used for scientific research for identifying valuable traits.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Muster

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

In this thesis, I focused on studying the above- and belowground interactions of J. vulgaris from a plant-soil feedback (hereafter, PSF) perspective. I investigated the temporal variation of negative PSF and examined the effects of root-associated bacteria on plant performance and aboveground herbiv…

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa

We showed that constitutive and inducible chemical and morphological defenses against Western flower thrips differ between tomato and chrysanthemum plants.

Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone, which is involved in the defense responses to pathogens and to abiotic stress, and in the regulation of plant growth and development.

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

Het onderwerp van dit proefschrift is integratie van klinische kennis en kennis van de basisvakken in het medisch onderwijs en de rol die concept maps kunnen spelen in het expliciet maken van deze zogenoemde verticale integratie.

In dit onderzoek wordt hersenontwikkeling voor het eerst direct gelinkt aan sekseverschillen en schoolprestatie. De resultaten ontkrachten de mythe dat jongens achterlopen in hersenontwikkeling.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

Prof.dr. J. Memelink

Herstel van de natuur op uitgeputte landbouwgrond en in natuurgebieden verloopt moeizaam. ‘Bodemtransplantatie’ kan mogelijk uitkomst bieden. Dat betoogt Martijn Bezemer, hoogleraar Ecologie van Plant-Microbe-Insect interacties. Oratie op 18 december.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

In een wervelende mix van wetenschap, natuur en kunst brengt de expositie Planten & Planeten beide werelden samen. De expositie is vanaf 7 februari vijf jaar lang te zien in de Oude Sterrewacht in de Hortus botanicus.

Oogst na oogst binnenhalen van rijstveld, zonder nieuwe rijstplanten te zetten? Door een ontdekking komt dit scenario misschien wel dichterbij. Leidse wetenschappers hebben een gen ontdekt waarmee ze eenjarige planten na het bloeien opnieuw laten groeien, in plaats van dat de planten sterven. Publicatie…

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position within the project ‘Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts’ (1.0 fte, 4 years). The PhD candidate will track changing professional and scholarly practices and attitudes towards…

Zonder een gewas opnieuw te zaaien toch nakomelingen produceren, die zelfs groter kunnen zijn dan de ouderplant. Volgens Leidse onderzoekers is dat mogelijk door het overstimuleren van één gen. Daarmee verjongt een cel en gaat deze terug naar de embryonale fase.

Hoe proberen verschillende actoren betekenis te geven aan terroristische aanslagen in het eerste jaar dat daarop volgt?