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Biodiversity on Wageningen Campus
A long-term monitoring project aims to survey biodiversity and changes therein over time on Wageningen Campus, which will help us to protect biodiversity on Campus. Data be obtained for discovering trends in (urban) biodiversity. ...
Supervisor: Dr. Casper Quist
Department: Biosystematics Group

Mapping the genes controlling flowering time and vitamin content in the orphan vegetable Gynandropsis gynandra (Cleomaceae)
Spider plant (Gynandropsis gynandra) is a minor leafy vegetable which belongs to the Cleomaceae family, the sister family of Brassicaceae. Besides its food use, the species is used as a medicinal plant in various parts of the worl ...
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Eric Schranz
Department: Biosystematics Group

Itchy 'tropic potato' -- diversity and evolution of taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.)] and its itchiness
Taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott (Araceae), is widely consumed worldwide. Although taro is one of the oldest crops, it’s regarded as an underutilized and understudied ‘orphan crop’. Global taro acceptance is limited by acridi ...
Supervisor: Eric Schranz
Department: Biosystematics Group

Evolution of egg-killing in Brassicales
Members of the Brassicaceae family are known to express a hypersensitive response(HR)-like necrosis when cabbage white butterflies (Pieris sp.) lay eggs on their leaves. The plant responds with a local cell death in the leaf under ...
Supervisor: Dr. Nina Fatouros
Department: Biosystematics Group

A hitch-hikers guide to egg parasitism
Minute hymenopteran wasps of the genus Trichogramma parasitise eggs of butterflies and moth. They are the most widely used biological control agents worldwide. However, their phylogeny, dispersal behavior, and parasitism capacitie ...
Supervisor: Dr. Nina Fatouros
Department: Biosystematics Group

Natural selection of (anti-) sex pheromones by egg parasitoids
Butterfly males can produce and transfer an anti-sex pheromone, a so-called anti-aphrodisiac (AA), to females during mating to render them less attractive to other males. AAs from cabbage white butterflies, Pieris brassicae and ...
Supervisor: Nina Fatouros, Liana Greenberg
Department: Biosystematics Group

How do plants kill butterfly eggs?
In response to eggs of cabbage white butterflies (Pieris spp.), black mustard plants (Brassica nigra, a relative of cabbage crops) respond with necrosis resembling a hypersensitive response (HR). HR is a form of programmed cell d ...
Supervisor: Dr. Nina Fatouros
Department: Biosystematics Group

Exploring the effect of intercropping on root traits and AMF colonization in Brassica-Allium intercropping (from a breeding perspective)
Description Intercropping is an alternative cropping system that allows higher biodiversity both, above and belowground. Previous research has shown that plant-plant interactions belowground play a main role in resource acquisitio ...
Supervisor: Alejandra Gallo
Department: Biosystematics Group

Elucidating the evolution of symbiosis genes across plant genomes
Description Nitrogen is a critical limiting element for plant growth. Some plants, make specialized root organs called nodules where they intracellularly host nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The most well-known are legumes, but some re ...
Supervisor: Dr. Robin van Velzen
Department: Biosystematics Group

Herbarium genomics to assess wild and landrace diversity in Cannabis sativa
Cannabis is native to Eurasia where it has been cultivated by humans for fiber and medicinal/ritual purposes for millenia. However, the variation across local landraces and putative wild plants remains unknown. Moreover, extensive ...
Supervisor: Dr. Robin van Velzen, Dr. Tinde van Andel
Department: Biosystematics Group

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