Two labs from VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have received a Bronze level LEAF certificate for sustainable practices. The Jacobs and Boerjan labs have succesfully completed their first assessment and subsequent on-site audit. The LEAF assessment guides labs towards more sustainable practices in resource and energy efficiency, waste collecting and sorting, and overall people involvement. Congrats to both!
Researchers at VIB-UGent have unraveled how the opening and closing of stomata - tiny pores on leaves – is regulated in response to high temperatures and drought.
Professors Wout Boerjan (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) and John Ralph (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) have been awarded the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for their pioneering contributions to understanding lignin biosynthesis and its structural diversity. The prize was presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on November 11.
The CGEF operates a maize and soybean transformation platform that can be accessed by other groups at VIB, other academic groups and companies. Next to transformation, we can help with related activities such as T-DNA copy number determination, construct design, cloning and genotyping. Together with the VIB Agro-Incubator we also can progress a project several generations and upscale seed.
We are also working on a project – together with Natuurpunt - that involves forest restoration and biodiversity. Updates soon!
Find out what species are found in this forest on waarnemingen.be!
