Heads up! We’re looking for a highly motivated and dedicated #PhD candidate working on an ambitious project funded by European Research Council (ERC) #ERCStG bit.ly/3JCGS4O Please help us RT

Out now in Frontiers - Plant Science, our comparative transcriptome study on differential Brassica napus—Xanthomonas campestris interactions! Great🇨🇳🇳🇱co-work led by Li Yang. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Wageningen U&R WUR Plant #CAAS #OilCropsResearchInstitute

bionieuws.nl/article/122500… Dutch Biology magazine wrote a nice article (in Dutch) on 50years anniversary of ‘Pyrenees excursion’ for biology students @wur Klaas Bouwmeester Robin van Velzen Eva Drukker

New #WUBiosystematics paper out @BioRxiv_evobio by colleagues Nora Walden and Eric Schranz. Nice read on gene synteny! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…… #biorxiv_evobio

Two highly interesting PhD-positions available at the Medema group (Marnix Medema) on the evolution of biosynthetic pathways in the cabbage family. Collaboration between Bioinformatics and Biosystematics groups WUR Plant. See below: x.com/marnixmedema/s…

Out now as preprint bioRxiv !! , our genome paper on the wild lettuce species Lactuca saligna, an important source of Bremia resistance. 🥬 Great team work by many, spearheaded by Wei Xiong (@J7tzA) #cropwildrelatives #Biosystematics Wageningen U&R biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great Kickoff meeting of our small functional agrobiodiversity consortium on #intercropping led by our three shared #PhDResearch masterminds WUR Plant (sorry Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology for the name overlap, but coincidence- it's just a great one😎!)

De Nederlandse regering en de Tweede Kamer willen het EU-voorstel voor een natuurherstelwet afzwakken. Een slechte zaak, vindt Vogelbescherming en roept op om het EU-voorstel juist te steunen. vogelbescherming.nl/actueel/berich…

Astonishing scenes as a Kabul university professor destroys his diplomas on live TV in Afghanistan — “From today I don’t need these diplomas anymore because this country is no place for an education. If my sister & my mother can’t study, then I DON’T accept this education.”

Congratulations to our young Dr. Li Yang and her daily supervisor Klaas Bouwmeester! Li did a great job defending her thesis on ‚Dissection of black rot resistance in Brassica napus’ in front of an expert panel. @GuusjeBonnema Guido Van den Ackerveken

Well done Dr Li Yang !! Congratulations with your PhD promotion 🎊 Wageningen U&R. Exciting new insights in Brassica-Xanthomonas interactions. Proud supervisors! Thanks to opponents for lively discussion this morning Pingtao Ding (he/him) Guido Van den Ackerveken Gert Kema @GuusjeBonnema

Congratulations to our new doctor Wei Xiong who just defended his thesis within the LettuceKnow project on genomics and trait evolution in lettuce and Asteraceae! Also congrats to his proud (and emotional) promoter Eric Schranz.

Now online The Plant Journal!, "The genome of Lactuca saligna, a wild relative of lettuce, provides insight into non-host resistance to the downy mildew Bremia lactucae". Great cowork by Wei Xiong and many others! WUR Plant #cropwildrelatives #plantimmunity doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16…

What pollinated the ancestral flower? 🪰?🪲?🐝?🦋?💨?🌊?🦜?🦇? Our latest research led by Ruby E Stephens 🌈 shows that insects most likely came first, before many lineages turned to wind, water, or vertebrates. Final version now out in New Phytologist: doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…

Below a link to our new preprint on the genetics of butterfly egg-killing HR that is controlled by a singe dominant locus containing TNL receptor genes in the black mustard. We are happy to receive views and comments Lotte Caarls Klaas Bouwmeester @GuusjeBonnema

Happy to announce that Niccolo Bassetti's last PhD thesis chapter on the finding of a locus including TNL receptor genes controlling butterfly egg-killing HR in Brassica nigra is published online and open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc… Lotte Caarls Klaas Bouwmeester @GuusjeBonnema

Are you a plant scientist with a keen interest in understanding how crops and their wild relatives deal with pathogen attack? If so, check out the PhD vacancy available in my team Wageningen U&R Biosystematics. Only one week left to apply Please RT. wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd…