Wageningen University and Research

Wageningen University & Research (also known as Wageningen UR; abbreviation: WUR) consists of Wageningen University and the former agricultural research institutes (Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (DLO)) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture.

Can the use of large herbivores can be an effective means to prevent and mitigate wildfires?

Is there a way for palm oil production to grow while protecting ecosystems?

If global warming is not reduced parts of the planet may experience near-unliveable conditions

Fighting emerging viruses with synthetic antibodies built with bacterial superglue

Reducing the cardiovascular risks of 1 in 2 people with an intestinal bacteria

In 2007, Patrice Cani (FNRS-WELBIO researcher) and his team at the Louvain Drug Research Institute of UCLouvain, in close collaboration with Willem de Vos, professor at UWageningen, discovered the beneficial effects of an intestinal bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila1, able to moderate the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes, in mice. In 2017, the team discovered

Reducing the cardiovascular risks of 1 in 2 people with an intestinal bacteria

Waste CO2 Could Be Source of Extra Power

Dutch scientists have a use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel-burning power stations: Harvest it for even more electricity Power-generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

Waste CO2 Could Be Source of Extra Power

A Hard Look at 3 Myths about Genetically Modified Crops

Superweeds? Suicides? Stealthy genes? The true, the false and the still unknown about transgenic crops In the pitched debate over genetically modified (GM) foods and crops, it can be hard to see where scientific evidence ends and dogma and speculation begin. In the nearly 20 years since they were first commercialized, GM crop technologies have seen

A Hard Look at 3 Myths about Genetically Modified Crops

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Social media and AI can measure the aesthetic quality of landscapes
To measure an ecosystem's beauty and the well-being it produces for people can help inform public environmental policy. Scientists at EPFL and Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed a ...
Researchers develop a tool to quantify the beauty of a landscape using artificial intelligence
Evaluating and quantifying the beauty of a landscape, an ecosystem and its effects on a person’s well-being has become a central issue for public authorities. With this in mind, scientists from the ...
EPFL develops algorithm to rate scenic landscapes
Researchers behind the algorithm to measure "scenicness" say it could have benefits for environmental conservation efforts.
Cannabis labels often wrong and misleading
The well-known India and Sativa labels that are used on cannabis products and form the basis for the information provided to users of medicinal cannabis are usually wrong and misleading. That is what ...
Physical feed characteristics key for nutrient digestibility
Grinding ingredients into a specified size class may realize a higher digestibility of nutrients in feed, according to a new paper.

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‘Zombie’ plants fix in sight, study says
and the Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. Insecticides can kill the disease vectors, but they do their own harm to the environment, Kuo said. Researchers have spent decades ...
Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention
Following the discovery of viruses in the last decade of the nineteenth ... The story of viruses begins in 1879 at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Wageningen in the Netherlands. In the mid-part ...
How Your Plants Recognise And Respond To Microbe Invasion
Matthieu Joosten and his team at the Laboratory of Phytopathology at Wageningen University and Research contributed to the discovery of the components that are involved in the signalling pathways ...
Four teams make the cut for finals of Pinduoduo’s Smart Agriculture Competition
Northwest A & F University, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Wageningen University & Research, as well as smart agriculture enterprises.
The Ecology of Plant Secondary Metabolites
The Netherlands Marcel Dicke is Professor of Entomology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. His ecological research focuses on the interaction between plants and insects and he has completed ...