NEV Entomology meeting
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1 2 3 4 5 6 Vidi team at Netherlands Entomology Annual Meeting Traditionally, the Dutch Entomology meeting is on a Friday just before the Christmas vacations. We heard lots of nice talks and debates on the alarming declines in insect biodiversity/biomass shown in many recent studies. Eddie presented a…
Vidi project progress meeting with users
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Four more years to go The Vidi project is running now for a year. We conducted a couple of experiments since Lotte is back from maternity leave. Thus, we had lots of nice data to present, a fruitful discussion and a delicious lunch. Most of the users and experts came…
Succesful screening of Brassica rapa genotypes on egg-killing response
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1 2 3 4 Greenhouse experiment This month we conducted a large screening of 60 genotypes by releasing Pieris rapae females to let them oviposit and by adding egg wash. Several B. rapa genotypes showed necrosis against eggs.
Vidi team excursion – catching butterflies and searching eggs
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Successful excursion with nice weather and lots of cabbage whites flying around! Some black mustard plants showed strong HR that killed the butterfly eggs (dessicated).
New article in Scientific Reports on egg-killing!
Symposium on Insect-Plant interactions (SIP2017)
Great meeting with lots of nice talks, posters and social happenings! 230 participants, 63 oral presentations and 105 posters – great success! Nice poster of Luis Paniagua on the role of Pieris microbes in host plant shifts Nice poster of Foteini Pashalidou on the role of eggs in plant-plant communication…
Vidi TTW Users committee progress meeting
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In a nice informal room in the Impuls building we had a fruitful second UC progress meeting. Niccolo and me updated the participants on the progress, some failures but also promising first results. Lotte, being in the middle of her maternity leave, was able to come as well. With the…
Mini symposium on insect-microbe-plant interactions
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Presentations and discussion In a chique room (with a crappy screen) in Impuls building on the campus we had a nice meeting with several interesting presentations and fruitful discussions. 13 participants from WUR, NIOO and FU Berlin were present including our special guest Martin Kaltenpoth, coming from Mainz early in…
First experiments started
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Planting first Brassica rapa seedlings Three weeks before the start of the experiments we were transferring the seedlings to pots. Mating the butterflies to obtain egg-laying females Is this a male or a female? Egg-laying maschines Female cabbage whites did a quick job by laying 3 single eggs on one…
