March 18, 2025
The Climate Challenge in Plant Breeding
As climate change accelerates, climate resilience has become a cornerstone of modern breeding programs.
However, progress in developing climate-adapted crop varieties is hindered by a limited understanding of changing genotype-by-environment interactions (GxEs).
March 17, 2025
The contemporary genomic laboratory faces many challenges associated with nucleic acid isolation and purification. In part these are related to the hazardous reagents that have become the standard in the industry. The standardized methods using (magnetic bead-based) DNA isolation currently rely heavily on flammable and hazardous substances such as isopropanol, ethanol and chaotropic salts.
February 24, 2025
The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) is expanding its research transfer activities through the TRANSPLANT initiative, launched in 2024. This collaborative project, involving Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Cologne, and Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve, is funded by the NRW Ministry for Culture and Science. TRANSPLANT aims to maximize the impact of fundamental plant science research by fostering collaboration between academia, industry and farmers, and by promoting entrepreneurship among scientists, to drive innovation within NRW and beyond. Ultimately, TRANSPLANT seeks to translate research excellence at CEPLAS and Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences into enhancing socio-economic impact.
February 03, 2025
Biotech start-ups will see more venture capital (VC) investment this year, according to Annick Verween, who leads Biotope, an incubator set up by the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology. “Part of this is a prediction, and part of this is a very strong hope,” she told Science|Business.
November 07, 2024
In two months from now, KeyGene and Sanya Yazhou Bay Innovation Research Co. Ltd. will organize the first edition of CropIB Asia in Sanya, Hainan, China.
September 24, 2024
Book your ticket before December 1, 2025 and get a 100,- EURO discount on a full conference ticket.
Use couponcode QUICKCROPIB2025 upon registration!
March 28, 2024
Presentations and abstracts 2024 available!
March 21, 2024
Sofico Gent Marathon is once again descending on Ghent and its surroundings in 2024. On Sunday 24 March, around 15 000 sports fans will run through Ghent. The course will be made traffic-free during the runners' passage (start 10K at 9.30am, start half marathon and marathon at 10am).