Plant Research and Higher Education in Southern Sweden
2023 starts in a really busy way! PlantLink released a new round of Industrial Mentorship Program for PhD students and postdocs and is ready to match passionate young researchers with innovative companies in the region! For MSc students, there is ELLS Plant Health Grand Challenges competition and…
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Kenneth Fredlund passed away on the 18th of January, 2023, after some time of progressive illness. Kenneth studied biology at Lund and completed an excellent PhD on respiratory processes in the Department of Plant Physiology at Lund University in 1996….
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As a PhD student or new postdoc, it may not be easy to get practical work experience throughout the studies. How is working life outside of academia? To better understand how it works in industry or non-academic organisations, PlantLink offers a…
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Are you an MSc student at ELLS university interested in Plant Health? Then you should enter the ELLS student competition to find solutions to the grand challenges in Plant Health! This is a great chance to meet fellow students at…
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The Story of Success highlights innovative regional companies in Plant and Food science which are bridging the gap between research and industry. In this interview, Arwa Mustafa introduces her company Arwa FoodTech AB focusing on baobab products. How to develop…
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Karolina Östbring is an associate professor at the Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition at Lund University. Her research focuses on the transformation of plant proteins into meat analogues. Would you like to find out more? Read the interview…
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On 30 November 2022, NordPlant held its 4th annual meeting in Lund, Sweden, with the theme “Envirotyping for plant breeding and precision agriculture”. The meeting was connected to the centennial celebration of the term ecotype that the researcher Göte Turesson coined in…
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During 29 November we celebrated that it was exactly 100 years since the young botanist Göte Turesson coined a concept that he called the “ecotype”. At that time, it had passed 60 years since Charles Darwin buried the idea that…
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