Laboratory of Plant Physiology

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The Laboratory of Plant Physiology of Wageningen University aims to contribute to the understanding of how plants function. We are particularly interested in how plants respond to changes in their sometimes hostile environment and how they in turn effect this environment to their benefit.
 

Important subjects we study are how plants cope with environmental stresses and how they have adapted to the co-existence with other organisms.

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Teaching
The Laboratory of Plant Physiology teaches plant physiology to 1st and 2nd year BSc Biology, Plant Sciences and Forest & Nature Conservation students. In addition, we contribute to a whole series of more specialized courses for 3rd year BSc, MSc and PhD students from several Study Programmes.
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Research
Important aspects in our research are the processes occurring in plants in response to a (changing) environment and the response of the plant to this environment. We study, for example, the effect of environmental factors on partitioning of metabolites between different organs (source-sink relationships) and the production of secondary metabolites involved in plant-insect interactions. Other examples are the regulation of quality control in protein processing during seed filling and the resource availability during germination and growth of the seedling. Genetics, natural variation, the analysis of plant hormones and other signaling molecules, and -omics technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are essential expertises used in our research.

We collaborate closely with the Laboratories of Genetics in our research on natural variation; Plant Cell Biology in our research on seed physiology; Entomology in our research on plant-insect interaction; Plant Research International in our research  on metabolomics, glycoproteomics, seed physiology and metabolic engineering of secondary metabolism.
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Laboratory of Plant Physiology
office.pph@wur.nl
phone: +31 (0)317 - 482 147
fax: +31 (0)317 - 418 094
 
Address:
Radix-West, Building no. 107
Droevendaalsesteeg 1
6708 PB Wageningen
 
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6700 AR Wageningen
The Netherlands
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