Wageningen University & Research
The mission of
Wageningen University & Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Within Wageningen University & Research, nine specialised research institutes from the Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen University have joined forces to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.
With approximately 30 locations, 6,000 employees, and 12,000 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the unique approach of Wageningen.
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At
the Laboratory of Plant Physiology we study plant responses to their environment. We investigate how stress tolerance and plant performance including seed germination in adverse environmental conditions are guided by underlying molecular, cellular and physiological processes. Within the research group led by dr. Leónie Bentsink, we study how stored mRNAs are protected. (see website WUR-PPH: www.pph.wur.nl).
Seeds are able to germinate after many years of storage. For this germination the translation of seed stored mRNAs into proteins is essential. Yet we currently do not understand how seed stored mRNAs can survive these long storage times as, generally, mRNAs have very short survival times. In the recently granted Vici Project "Seeds4Ever"we aim at studying mRNA protection from the physiological to the cellular and molecular level.
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