Projects
Crop rotation for a robust dairy farm HOGENT
Multifactorial approach for improved control of Rhizoctonia solani in fodder beet within a pathogen-prone crop rotation HOGENT
Evolution and diversification of East African sweet potato crop wild relatives, Ipomoea L. (Convolvulaceae). Ghent University
In Kenya, persistent drought and population increase drive up food demands, threatening food security. Advanced genomic techniques will be used to investigate the evolution and diversification of sweet potato wild relatives, with focused sampling of the understudied Eastern African species; thus, providing analytical tools for biodiversity conservation, and food security strategies in the face of climate change for the region.
Skirmishing abiotic stress: the power of 'sweet' resilience. KU Leuven
The proposed research program aims to provide a new level of insight on the physiological background of coping with abiotic stresses and to explore a novel approach to improve abiotic stress resistance and hence plant production.
EncRNA: Evaluation of exogenous RNA as non-GMO based strategy to improve plant stress resilience Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the target and non-target effects of exogenously applied long noncoding RNAs (encRNAs) on rice plants. Several long ncRNAs have been selected and uptake of these RNAs in rice is predicted to enhance stress resilience in plants. We will focus on salt and drought stress as abiotic stresses, and defense against nematodes as biotic stress. The off-target effects through various epigenetic mechanisms will also be ...