588 search results for “plant food” in the Staff website
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
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Non-food vending machine Huygens/Oort
Huygens, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Plexus
Plexus Student Centre, Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Snellius
Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Lipsius
Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat, Schouwburgstraat 2, 2511 VA, The Hague
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Non-food vending machine University Library
University Library, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine KOG
Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Van Steenis
Van Steenis, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall, Einsteinweg 57, 2333 CC, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Wijnhaven
Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP, The Hague
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National Meat Free Week: the main reasons to switch to a plant-based diet
National Meat Free Week (Nationale Week Zonder Vlees, 7–13 March) is an initiative to reduce meat consumption. Assistant professor Paul Behrens is studying what impact a change in our food consumption would have on the world. What, according to him, are the main reasons to switch to a (mainly) plant-based…
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Non-food vending machine Pieter de la Court
Pieter de la Court, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden
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Non-food vending machine Anna van Buerenplein
Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, The Hague
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started thanks to funding from the Dutch Research Council's KIC research programme.
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Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus
Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…
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interactions in Jacobaea vulgaris: zooming in and zooming out from a plant-soil feedback perspective
PhD defence
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Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus
The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers allows him to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which plants resist…
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Changing our diet would help absorb global food shocks, such as during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
A plant-based diet could improve the resilience of our food system. Moving to such a diet in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) alone could replace almost all the production losses from Russia and Ukraine. That’s what an international team of researchers conclude in Nature Food. Leiden…
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet
Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-based diet.
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Ellen Cieraad
Science
e.cieraad@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Laura Julia Zantis
Science
l.j.zantis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Adam Ossowicki
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a.s.ossowicki@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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New minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food ‘A full spectrum analysis of global society’
In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.
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Indonesian 'coffee plant' named after Leiden researcher
Research on Asian plants is his life's work. Now a crown is added to that: a plant from the coffee family bearing his name. Paul Kessler is LUF professor of botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia and Scientific Director of the Hortus botanicus. 'Completely unexpectedly, you get to see the results…
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Producing all our food nationally: is it even possible?
According to a new study, for half of the world population the answer would be yes. For the other half: maybe? Leiden environmental researcher and head author Nicolas Navarre explains: ‘With improvements to crop yields, reductions in food waste, and changes in consumption patterns, 90% of people could…
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Nanoparticles: shapeshifters that pass along the food chain and end up in the brain
Nanomaterials can pass much further along the food chain than was previously thought. The particles can change shape and size in each organism, enabling them to pass on to the next one in the chain. Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences discovered this accidentally when using a novel…
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Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory
‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’
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Nadia Soudzilovskaia
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n.a.soudzilovskaia@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martijn Bezemer
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t.m.bezemer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5158
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’
For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope
Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasingly be able to adapt to survive. How do you make plants more stress-resistant? For this purpose, researchers from Leiden, along with other universities,…
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Laura Scherer
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l.a.scherer@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6832
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Peng Sun
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p.sun@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sofia Fernandes Gomes
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s.i.fernandes.gomes@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5118
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Marieke Elfferich
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m.elfferich@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5110
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Kiki Spaninks
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k.spaninks@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4835
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Dian Triastari Armanda
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d.dian.triastari.armanda@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Barbara Gravendeel
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b.gravendeel@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kevin Bretscher
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k.m.bretscher@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4384
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How a pathogenic bacterium searches for food
Bacteria whirl around in the mouths of most people, forming dental plaques and sometimes causing nasty gum infections. Treponema denticola might be a dangerous pathogen, but not much is known about this bacterium. It was up to Ariane Briegel and her research group to change that.
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Oliver Taherzadeh
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o.a.taherzadeh@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Call for volunteers: "Food stories for the biome"
Education, Research
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How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
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Jennifer Anderson
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j.a.anderson@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Emily Strange
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e.f.strange@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jiaxin Zhang
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j.z.zhang@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727