On the 10th of May, Kiki Spaninks defended her thesis on the "Control of early plant development by light quality". Lettucecongratulate Kiki for this achievement and wish her the very best for her future works #drkiki #leidenuniversity #lettucedefence

Join the 10th #EUCARPIA Leafy Vegetable Conference Utrecht University! This is the place to discuss research in genomics, biotechnology, stress resilience and quality traits in this group of crops. It will be a fun meeting with superb keynotes and NPEC.nl uu.nl/en/research/eu…

Today was the first day of our biannual LettuceKnow User Committee Meeting! A day full of many interesting updates and good discussions. The only downside was the rain. Thanks voor hosting Rijk Zwaan NL #LettuceMeet

With Helios NPEC.nl it is now possible to automatically monitor the growth and development of more than a thousand plants. Researcher Bart Schimmel is putting Helios into operation with an experiment focused on the early detection of a plant pathogen. uu.nl/en/news/fully-…

Excited to share our latest research on using phylogenomic analysis to explore gene evolution of crucial transcription factors and their impact on floral development in Asteraceae family species. #EvolutionaryBiology #DandelionSequencing #FloralDevelopment #Phylogenomics

It was fantastic to see how LettuceKnow members and students work together on large-scale RNAseq data to learn about lettuce immunity. Thanks to Utrecht University for the GitHub infrastructure that facilitates our team research and brings plant biology education to a new level.

Lettuce researchers visited our Fijnaart Research& Breeding location for the LettuceKnow project! This #partnership between universities and breeding companies focuses on researching lettuce traits and increasing scientific knowledge for more robust crops #Sharingahealthyfuture

We had a great LettuceKnow user meeting at Rijk Zwaan. Happy to experience the smooth collaboration between academics and company researchers through the perspective program of NWO Nieuws Applied and engineering sciences domain.

NEWS - Denomination of new official downy mildew races Bl:38EU, Bl:39EU and Bl:40EU 🥬 Our crop specialists are happy to explain more about our lettuce varieties and their resistances #vegetablebreeding #freshlyforward Read more hubs.la/Q01Wtw020 #Sharingahealthyfuture

Enjoying the intro session of Eucarpia leafy greens meeting in Utrecht - antagonism between the phyllosphere resistobiome with downy mildew infection LettuceKnow UCDavisPlants

Ales Lebeda from Palacký University of Olomouc (CZ) gave an exciting talk about his love for lettuce and his quest for prickly and opium lettuces in Central Chile and Mendoza district (Argentina). #lettuceislife #Leafyveg23

Richard Michelmore closes the conference with a keynote lecture on downy mildew variation and genomic resources in lettuce. Resources from his lab driving research on multiple diseases and plant breeding in the last decade. #leafyveg23 Michelmore Lab UCDavisPlants

Many opportunities to build on collaborations between lettuce research projects 🥬 #leafyveg23 Michelmore Lab

The latest genome assembly of the lettuce wild relative L. virosa and comparative genomics reveal complex evolutionary patterns in Lactuca spp. and highlight its potential for lettuce breeding. Congratulations to everyone involved 👏 Dirk-Jan Wei Xiong academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva…

Our second LettuceKnow hackathon with more than 20 participants. This time analysis of complex RNA-seq data on the menu. Thanks for organizing Iñigo and Bart Schimmel.

These 540 lettuce plants, representing 180 cultivars, are being monitored 24/7 for 14 days, using 4 distinct cameras 🤯 NPEC.nl, because we want to understand why plants can't grow and fend off pathogens or insects at the same time. LettuceKnow UU_Plants

LettuceKnow was well-represented at the annual meeting of @EpsGradSchool in Egmond aan Zee with talks by Siva, Jelmer and Francesca. #LettucePresent

Many thanks to NWO NWO Nieuws for a beautiful infographic about one of our research programs - LettuceKnow LettuceKnow nwo.nl/en/cases/resea… Guido Van den Ackerveken WUR Plant Leiden University Faculty of Science, Utrecht University umcu

Today we had our first meeting to discuss the writing of publications. PhDs, PostDocs, and PIs joining efforts to share great scientific results. Looking forward to reading those stories published! #lettucepublish