News | 19/10/2023
...e ideal host plant for propagation and survival of the bacteria. Brown rot infections subsequently arose from irrigation of potato fields from these contaminated waterways.
Today, 45 Flemish mu...
News | 12/06/2023
'Mel Bee’ rose wins the Rivierenhof Rose Award - Copyright: province of Antwerp
Roses from the rose garden in Rivierenhof are the big winnersOn Sunday, June 11 during the annual Rose Festival,...
News | 25/04/2022
...ss nights. In 2011, the genome of the bean spider mite, a difficult pest to control on tomatoes and roses, was fully clarified. Thanks to the spider mite genome, scientists at Ghent University disc...
News | 17/03/2022
...for implementation of the identified priorities. In terms of research, new needs and opportunities arose, including a focus on themes such as climate mitigation and marine connectivity, and on new ...
News | 14/02/2022
...r>Numerous potential biocontrol viruses against diseases and pests were found for grape, tomato and roses. In addition, important insights were gained on the interaction between viruses, the harmfu...
News | 04/10/2021
...tigue' or 'replant disease'
RootsPlus uses chrysanthemum as a model crop for herbaceous plants, rose and apple as model plants for woody plants, and sunflower as a model plant for agricultural ...
News | 29/04/2021
...t of Bokrijk.
Sven Bronckaers, heritage gardener at Bokrijk, explains: "Our interest in holly arose in the 1980s when there was a need for shelter and an evergreen structure in the garden to be...
News | 01/10/2020
...ies. Pratylenchus penetrans is widespread and can cause serious damage in vegetables, potatoes, roses and nursery plants. The wood root vegetable nematode P. vulnus, originally from southern Europe...
News | 01/08/2020
...mi'.
Phytoplasms cause a very wide range of symptoms (discolourations, deformities, phyllodes, rosette formation, witches' brooms, etc.) which can easily be confused with viral diseases or erro...
News | 29/06/2020
...he American hop variety Amarillo® when processed in De Proefbrouwerij. The hypothesis soon arose that these were possibly due to their geographical origin, and thus to the existence of terroir-rela...
News | 07/10/2019
...s. He succeeds Nadine Buys, former dean of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven. Anne-Rose Gustin becomes the new coordinator and is responsible for the daily operations. Agrolink Fla...
News | 08/07/2019
...he marine building for Flanders, a special project with a unique content and appearance. Our team rose to the challenge to outline an open, functional and contemporary project. The theme of sea and...
News | 08/05/2019
...absorb PM than other species. In the top 10 are: Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii), guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), European cornbeam (Carpinus betulus), holm oak (Quercus ilex), wayfarer tree (Vib...
News | 11/06/2018
Whether this means that there will soon be roses without thorns on the market, is still unclear. It is clear that the new reference genome that is now publicly available will speed up the breeding of ...
News | 05/06/2018
...ber of chromosomes. For example, tetraploid Escallonia genotypes were developed in which variation arose in compactness, size of the flowers and cold tolerance. The introduction of rol-genes, that ...