💡We're hiring! A 4-year funded PhD position on developing & using interaction proteomics tools to study transcriptional regulation in the plant circadian clock! #plantscijobs Please apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… (no citizenship requirements, Master's degree required)

Our new article about green chemicals from potato and cassava byproducts is out Green Chemistry #nonprofitpublishers Bringing innovation to the cassava & potato value chains and solutions to postharvest losses and NIPU Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven Food Systems and Climate (FOSC) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

📰The 5th #VIRTIGATION newsletter is published! Find out about our latest activities, events and publications on our website👇virtigation.eu/fifth-virtigat… #H2020 #EUFunded #PlantHealth #PlantScience #Tomatoes #Cucurbits #FoodSecurity

Save the Date: On 14 December, #VIRTIGATION partners Agencia de Gestión Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía & CT Tecnova will organise a #MultiActor workshop, which will provide 🇪🇸stakeholders w/ #IPM strategies on #PlantVirus control in #Greenhouses. More info & registration: virtigation.eu/virtigation-te… #H2020 #EUFunded

🧵How can #efficacy of new #natural #insecticides against the #BemisiaTabaci #whitefly be tested? One method are #Mesh #Cage tests, which #VIRTIGATION 🇩🇪 partner LNW conducted on formulations of our coordinator BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven. Find out more in a new #BehindTheScenes edition:

Looking for a new challenge? The BCCM/ULC cyanobacteria collection is hiring! #postdoc in: - Computational biology scholarshipdb.net/scholarships-i… - Bio-IT scholarshipdb.net/scholarships-i… - Cyano's & taxonomy scholarshipdb.net/scholarships-i… #microbiology #research #Jobs Belspo ULiège Research & Innovation

Tropical Crop Improvement Laboratory and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT hosted Minister of Cooperation Caroline Gennez & Mayor of Leuven Mohamed Ridouani for fruitful discussion about the importance of banana biodiversity conservation, capacity building and cutting-edge research on tropical crops

On 21 February, our 🇧🇪 National Knowledge Broker Proefcentrum Hoogstraten gathered close to 100 #stakeholders, including #growers, #industry & #policymakers, to share new #VIRTIGATION #IPM findings on how to control the #BemisiaTabaci #whitefly in #greenhouses: #H2020 #EUFunded

My lab has an open ERC-funded postdoc position to work on plant hormones and microbiome assembly in an evolutionary context (hint: Marchantia). Apply here if you are interested. kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…. Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 KU Leuven European Research Council (ERC) KU Leuven Plant Institute

From 15-17 May, the #VIRTIGATION consortium will gather in #Catania, #Sicily, hosted by our partner Unict, to review latest project #research results & define how to bring them to #horticulture value chain actors like #growers, #industry & #policy: virtigation.eu/news/

🚨Calling all🌱⏰scientists! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the first ever Plant Chronobiology Symposium next summer (June 13 & 14) at KU Leuven! Please RSVP here if you are interested in attending! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

Yesterday, we turned off the lights in our university greenhouse. Multiple generations of students have conducted their experiments here. Now, we’re preparing for a new chapter and look forward to the opening of our new greenhouse in 2025! #Greenhouse #NewBeginnings

🐟➡️From fishery waste to the food of the future An Ecotron experiment at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech tests four BBFs under reference and future meteorological conditions. ULiège Research & Innovation sea2landproject.eu/from-fishery-w…

In our recent work Plant Biotechnology Journal we show that the 5´UTR of a gene can be edited for improved trait in potato #lowacrylamid. Fruitful collaboration with CRA-W and Max Rubner-Institut. #EAPR14 #CRISPR doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14…

To assess #ToBRFV presence in & around #greenhouses, #testing is required. Correct interpretation of test results can be challenging. A new paper w/ 🇧🇪#VIRTIGATION partners DCM & Scientia Terrae in British Society for Plant Pathology explores this issue bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pp… #PlantHealth #PCR #Detection

#PlantDefense mechanisms involve intricate #signaling pathways that trigger activation & inhibition of various #responses, direct & indirect, achieved through #signal transduction. Our new infographics series #PlantsDiscovery shines a light on these mechanisms: #H2020 #EUFunded

#Disinfection methods like #steaming or #solarisation can get rid of #Tobamovirus-contaminated growing media by #heat. Maria Schmidt from #VIRTIGATION partner LNW outlines our project's advances in improving these methods in a new #ResearchInBrief video: #H2020 #EUFunded #ToBRFV