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Urban “farming” in Matsue, Japan ;-)

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Posted on 26 January 2018 by ronaldpierik

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Last week we had an excellent edition of the International Symposium of Plant Photobiology in Matsue, Japan. Very exciting new work was presented by many different speakers and we will be witnessing several awesome papers published this year. In addition, … Continue reading →

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Shoot-root integration

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Posted on 10 January 2018 by ronaldpierik

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Light is the plant’s source of energy, harnessed in the process of photosynthesis. Plants show spectacular plasticity to ensure light capture even when grown in very dense stands where shading by neighbors is a serious threat. Responses to grow towards … Continue reading →

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Canopy and shade avoidance modeling

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Posted on 22 December 2017 by ronaldpierik

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Computational models are a fantastic tool that we are adding to our research these days. Franca Bongers, in a collaboration between Jochem Evers at Wageningen University and ourselves,  built an Arabidopsis Functional Structural Plant (FSP) model in which growth of … Continue reading →

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Welcome to our new group member

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Posted on 9 November 2017 by ronaldpierik

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As of 1 November, Valérie Hoogers has joined our team as a PhD student. She will be working on a project that is funded by the Building Blocks of Life scheme of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO). The project is … Continue reading →

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Special issue Photomorphogenesis

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Posted on 20 October 2017 by ronaldpierik

There are quite a few of us, interested in Plant Photobiology.  Plant, Cell & Environment decided to do a special issue on Photomorphogenesis, you find it here. We are publishing a review on signals en ecological consequences of shade avoidance … Continue reading →

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Reaching out of the shade

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Posted on 17 October 2017 by ronaldpierik

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Cucumber is such a nice species for visualization… Plant on the left is in control white light, whereas the plant on the right is in white light supplemented with far-red light. Far-red light is reflected by plants and evaluated by … Continue reading →

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Light on the dark side of plant development

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Posted on 26 September 2017 by ronaldpierik

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We, being plant photobiologists, typically study the aboveground plant parts when investigating the effects of light signaling. Nevertheless, a substantial part of the plant is hidden in the soil that presents a multitude of challenges to plants as well. plant … Continue reading →

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cool project

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Posted on 8 September 2017 by ronaldpierik

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When you start getting text message with images like the above from your PhD students, taken from their window, you know they’re on to a cool project. We (Rashmi Sasidharan (initiator of it all) Martina Huber, Justine Toulotte, Kaisa Kajala, Rens … Continue reading →

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Biodiversity

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Posted on 26 July 2017 by ronaldpierik

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We are very happy to use all the fantastic opportunities that the Arabidopsis model system offers to plant scientists. Our latest papers in PNAS (Pantazopoulou et al., 2017) and Current Biology (de Wit et al., 2016) are just two examples … Continue reading →

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New team member

Posted on 10 July 2017 by ronaldpierik
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We are happy to welcome to Kaisa Kajala on a tenure track position in our team. Kaisa did a post-doc at UC-Davis and started last week with us, you can find more information on her research interests here.

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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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