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Innovation Award

2024.11.29

Johan received the Innovation Award 2024: "It's about finding the right people to work with"

Johan Andersen-Ranberg from Plant Biochemistry was honored at the University of Copenhagen's Annual…

APPOINTMENT

2024.10.09

Rosa Lopez Marques becomes Professor in Plant Membrane Biotechnology

Professor Rosa Lopez Marques investigates the small, invisible processes that are crucial for plant…

environment

2024.09.11

How toxic are they? Researchers investigate the environmental consequences of new biotechnological pesticides

Biotechnological pesticides are a promising alternative to traditional chemical pesticides. But we…

parasites

2024.09.03

New knowledge about a fungus that turns 60-80% of the flies in your home into zombies

How can a fungus take over a fly's behavior? An international group of researchers with…

Names

2024.06.20

New head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Science

Professor Morten Petersen has been appointed new head of the Department of Plant and Environmental…

Plastic

2024.06.18

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the…

Sustainability

2024.02.26

Robots, monitoring and healthy ecosystems could halve pesticide use without hurting productivity

Smarter crop farming that combats weeds, insect pests and plant diseases by integrating modern…

APPOINTMENT

2024.02.01

Sander Bruun appointed Professor of Sustainable Soil Fertility Management

Sander Bruun will give his inaugural lecture as new professor at the Department of Plant &…

plants

2024.01.30

Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think

How is a beech leaf constructed? What determines the appearance of an asparagus? A new…

biotech

2024.01.10

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the…

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Johan received the Innovation Award 2024: "It's about finding the right people to work with"

Rosa Lopez Marques becomes Professor in Plant Membrane Biotechnology

How toxic are they? Researchers investigate the environmental consequences of new biotechnological pesticides

New knowledge about a fungus that turns 60-80% of the flies in your home into zombies

New head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Science

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

Robots, monitoring and healthy ecosystems could halve pesticide use without hurting productivity

Sander Bruun appointed Professor of Sustainable Soil Fertility Management

Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast