Laboratory of Plant Physiology Wageningen UR

Our group works on the performance of plants,
under optimal and suboptimal (stress) conditions. We try to unravel regulatory
mechanisms controlling plant growth and development, allowing the plant to
develop, adapting to (changing) environmental conditions. In the research, we
often use genetic tools to find underlying genes and networks. This inevitably
implies the analysis of large number of plants.

We developed several  tools:
• Penotyping facility – to automatically phenotype plant growth over
time, extracting parameters like, relative growth rates, plant size, leaf
number, shape etc.;
• Oscillator: a system for the analysis of rhythmic leaf growth movement in mature
plants;
• Luminator: in planta gene expression using luciferase under diurnal light/temp
regimes.