Carlo has managed to arrive to our lab even under the most challenging travel restrictions. He will be working as a visiting scientist for the next 3 month together with Elisa.

One of our BSc thesis students has been growing wheat for the experimental work. It has been a while since we last visited our seed bank but the seeds of both genotypes still have very high germination rate.

We currently have two project students working with gas film retention time in wild species of Oryza as well as in some African crossings. The work is progressing really well and we already see some exciting patterns.

Our BSc thesis students are growing a number of species of wild rice, which will be exposed to submergence and salinity stress

The compulsory start-up seminar for PhD students was successfully held with an international audience. We received lots of competent feed-back which will serve to improve the PhD Plan of Song.