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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Flying tomato plants: a problem or an improvement?
SAIA has developed a new cultivation system to be able to move plants to our automated tomato harvester. This has never been done on this scale for tomato plants. There are cases for roses and gerbera that didn’t work out, but the ...
Supervisor: Tristan Marcal Balk from company SAIA Agrobotics BV
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Role of Salicylic acid in root salt stress tolerance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a well-known phytohormone for biotic stress resilience, but it has also been suggested to regulate ion homeostasis when plants are under salt stress. Ion homeostasis, especially the ratio between sodium and ...
Supervisor: Minnie Leong
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Mapping the salt-induced gene regulatory network that guides root branching
As a major abiotic stress, high soil salinity severely affects plant growth and crop productivity globally. Plants are unable to move from their location, and therefore require various effective mechanisms to cope with salinity. I ...
Supervisor: Yiyun Li, Dr. Aalt-Jan van Dijk
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Characterization of transcription factors involved in root salinity response.
Soil salinity is an increasing problem for agriculture worldwide. To understand how plants deal with this stress we study the development of their root systems under salinity stress. In previous experiments we have identified a sa ...
Supervisor: Kilian Duijts, Prof. Dr. Christa Testerink
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

The role of blue-light photoreceptors in seed development (MSc only)
The transitional phase from dark-grown seedlings to light is very important. During this transition, skotomorphogenic seedlings must change many processes to become photomorphogenic and start photosynthesis. In this process, photo ...
Supervisor: Anniek Oosterwijk, Lars Bakermans
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Investigating the role of phytohormone cytokinin in lateral root development under salt stress
Saline soils are becoming an increasing threat to agriculture world wide. In contrast to animals that can move to avoid stressful conditions, plants are literally bound to their location. In response to unfavorable conditions they ...
Supervisor: Kilian Duijts
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Prediction and testing of protein dimerization using structural modeling and in vitro validation.
Soil salinity is an increasing problem for agriculture worldwide. To understand how plants deal with this stress we study the development of their root systems under salinity stress. In this thesis you will be studying the dimeriz ...
Supervisor: Kilian Duijts, Dr. Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Prof. Dr. Christa Testerink
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Identification of multi-stress response mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana HapMap population using a genome-wide association study approach (BSc. Only).
Plant encounter a myriad of stress conditions in the wild, both biotic as well as abiotic conditions. These stress conditions affect germination, growth (e.g. shoot growth, root growth, etc.) and the response to other stress condi ...
Supervisor: Dr. Iris Kappers
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Development of a seed vigour test for organic seeds
In organic farming, devoid of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, the microbiome plays a central role in promoting nutrient cycling and soil fertility. Beneficial bacteria and fungi can promote nutrient absorption and strengthen ...
Supervisor: Jan Kodee
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Developing automated phenotyping: using timelapse imaging to track seedling growth in stressful conditions (flexible start date)
Chloroplasts have been identified as important hubs for abiotic stress adaptation. Stress can lead to chloroplast malfunction, in response to which they send out so-called retrograde signals to the nucleus to change transcription ...
Supervisor: Dr. Jesse Küpers
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

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