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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

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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 and invited amazing speakers, which even allowed me to catch up … Continue reading →

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diversity

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Posted on 26 April 2018 by ronaldpierik

Plant biologists are, or should be, used to diversity. Trees, algae, annual plants. Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, mosses. Not every question can be answered using  just Arabidopsis as the model and we all like to think that our research may help improve … Continue reading →

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Lab update

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Posted on 7 March 2018 by ronaldpierik

Chrysa Pantazopoulou successfully defended her thesis a couple of weeks ago. It deals with shade avoidance control, including last year’s PNAS paper, and ideas about implementing our knowledge in weed control. Congratulations to Chrysa for a wonderful public defense, and … Continue reading →

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How plants grow: Plant Physiology Updates on Light & Growth

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Posted on 9 February 2018 by ronaldpierik

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Interested in understanding how plants grow? Check out the latest two Focus Issues of Plant Physiology. The January issue is on Cellular Dynamics, the February issue on Energy: Light and Oxygen Dynamics. Combined they have provide excellent resources for the … Continue reading →

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Ronald Pierik’s lab studies plasticity of plant architecture and physiology in response to light quality. Interactions with other environmental parameters are also studied.

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