Thanks to Yingji Pan, a PhD student at Leiden University, we now have yet another output from our global wetland database with root and shoot traits of wetland plants. It is now out in Nature Communications.

Last year I co-authored a paper in Science on the distribution of submerged aquatic plants as influenced by the geology of the catchment area. Here is short easy-to-read version that was recently published in The ScienceBreaker.

I recently went to Kiel in Germany to pick up a kind of deepwater rice that we will use for experiments here in Copenhagen in an ongoing collaboration with UCPH and Kiel University.

As you already know, we are growing wild rice like never before. But it is a challenging task since some species have extremely low germination. The seeds come fresh from the seed bank at IRRI but still we are having troubles!

We seem to be up and running at full power after the lock-down! We now have a good culture of rice ready for experiments so everybody is busy in the laboratory.