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Upgraded growth facilities

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Posted on 5 November 2020 by ronaldpierik

While COVID19 measures closed down our lab, a major renovation of our Phytotron (Plant Growth Facility) was planned. Even though access to all of our facilities is still strictly limited by ongoing COVID19 measures, we are fortunate to start using … Continue reading →

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Lab re-opening (slowly…)

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Posted on 15 June 2020 by ronaldpierik

Wouldn’t it be great to meet all these wonderful people in the lab in real life again! We will continue to meet online for quite some time still, but the good news is that lab life is slowly starting up … Continue reading →

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lab on hold

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Posted on 27 March 2020 by ronaldpierik

Just like most other labs, we had to close our lab activities by and large. We’re just collecting useful lab materials and donate these to the university hospital in these tense times, just like most other life science groups do. … Continue reading →

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Seminar Jacob Weiner

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Posted on 21 February 2020 by ronaldpierik

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Wednesday 26 February at 2 PM, Jacob Weiner (University of Copenhagen) will give a seminar at Utrecht University. Jacob is an amazing speaker, excellent (agro-)ecologist and full of inspiring ideas on how modulation of shade avoidance in crops can help … Continue reading →

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Modifying shade avoidance to suppress competitors

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Posted on 7 October 2019 by ronaldpierik

Shade avoidance responses are well known to enhance individual plant fitness at high densities by positioning the photosynthesizing leaves away from the shade caused by neighbor plant leaves. However, in isogenic monocultures, such as most crop fields, all plants are … Continue reading →

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PhD graduation: Dr. Sara Buti

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Posted on 25 June 2019 by ronaldpierik

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Sara Buti succesfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday. It was a great event, with excellent questions from the committee (Jaume Martinez-Garcia, Roberta Croce, Guido van den Ackerveken, Kirsten ten Tusscher and Titti Mariani), great answers and discussions by Sara, and … Continue reading →

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Abiotic stress modulates shade avoidance

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Posted on 6 May 2019 by ronaldpierik

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Our latest paper is now online, open access at Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30340-9. The project started a couple of years ago when Scott Hayes, then still with Kerry Franklin at University of Bristol, reached out to me to write a research … Continue reading →

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Meet our new team members

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Posted on 13 February 2019 by ronaldpierik

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We are very happy to introduce two new PhD students in our team: Nicole Nieuwendijk (left) and Lisa Oskam (right), who will be working on Ronald’s Vici project. Also Kasper van Gelderen and Sara Buti will be on the Vici … Continue reading →

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How to suppress shade avoidance?

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Posted on 3 September 2018 by ronaldpierik

Since a couple of years we have started to study molecular and physiological mechanisms that allow plants to suppress shade avoidance responses. We expect these to be prominent in in species that live in forest understories, since the tall trees … Continue reading →

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(Summer sun) light and plant health

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Posted on 5 July 2018 by ronaldpierik

Our PhD students are organizing the European Plant Science Retreat here in Utrecht. We’re lucky, it’s fabulous sunny weather, Utrecht at its best. The organizers have done a fantastic job andĀ invited amazing speakers, which even allowed me to catch up … Continue reading →

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