Dr Guillermo Toro is currently visiting from San Santiago, Chile. Guillermo is working with the potential of using landraces of Lagenaria siceraria to improve root stocks in horticultural production with special emphasis on water melon.

We are currently hosting Hui Xiao from the post harvest group in KU Leuven, Belgium. Hui is working on oxygen distribution in tomato fruits and she is visiting our group to verify the interesting finding of her model.

Few people think of grasses as flowering plants. However, grasses belong to some of the most advanced (in evolutionary terms) flowering plants and are closely related to orchids. See this blog post for examples of very nice rice flowers.

Our BSc thesis student, Hans, germinated some 50 genotypes of rice back in November. He has taken good care of them and now we will use them to confirm his findings.

During three extensive days in March, Mpeji learnt every detail in the art of measuring underwater net photosynthesis using oxygen production in a closed vial so that he is now equipped to conduct measurements back home.