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Roots in Salt

@WUR Plant Physiology

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  • Lab News
  • Research
  • The Team
    • Christa Testerink (Professor of Plant Physiology)
    • Charlotte Gommers (Assistant professor)
    • Rumyana Karlova (Assistant professor)
    • Nora Gigli Bisceglia (Post-Doc)
    • Yanxia Zhang (Postdoc)
    • Tom van der Meer (post-doc)
    • Jessica Meyer (Technician)
    • Thijs de Zeeuw (Technician)
    • Eva van Zelm (PhD student)
    • Jasper LamersĀ (PhD student)
    • Hongfei LiĀ (PhD student)
    • Yutao Zou (PhD student)
    • Damian Boer (PhD student)
    • Scott Hayes (Post-Doc)
    • Joram Dongus (Post-Doc)
    • Kilian Duijts (PhD student)
    • Yiyun Li (PhD student)
  • Student projects
    • MSc project: Prediction and validation of protein dimerization
    • MSc/BSc Project: Characterization of transcription factors involved in root developmental salinity response
    • MSc project: How does salt stress affect plant lateral root development?
    • BSc: Novel candidate genes in salt sensing from natural variation screening (GWAS)
    • BSc/MSc: Unraveling the sodium sensing mechanism in plants
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Welcome to the Roots in Salt lab. We investigate how plants deal with salt stress. Our lab is part of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, and is led by prof. Christa Testerink. Here, you can find information about our research, the team, opportunities to join the team, and the latest lab news.

Research

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The Team

Introducing the roots in salt team.

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Reaping the fruits of our lockdown writing

Since March 2020, keeping up the lab work has been tough, and especially at the beginning of the Covid lockdown, many lab members redirected part of their efforts to literature review. Now, looking back at 2021, we can see the results published in a nice collection of Open Access reviews addressing several topics related to…

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  • Reaping the fruits of our lockdown writing January 17, 2022
  • Three new colleagues! January 11, 2022
  • Wij zijn lesstof geworden! (We have become text book knowledge!) – Dutch only December 23, 2021
  • ‘Grote Vragen’ of Christa Testerink November 10, 2020
  • A familiar face with a new position May 1, 2020
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Available student projects

MSc project: How does salt stress affect plant lateral root development?

BSc: Novel candidate genes in salt sensing from natural variation screening (GWAS)

BSc/MSc: Unraveling the sodium sensing mechanism in plants

 

 

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