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agriculture

2025.05.22

Ox-eye daisy, bellis and yarrow: Flower strips with at least two sown species provide 70 percent more natural enemies of pests

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural…

biotech

2025.05.19

Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to…

Crop farming

2025.04.09

Ancient grain has huge climate potential and could play a key role in Europe’s future

Sorghum is one of the world’s oldest grains and possesses many traits that can benefit food…

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…

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Ox-eye daisy, bellis and yarrow: Flower strips with at least two sown species provide 70 percent more natural enemies of pests

Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug

Ancient grain has huge climate potential and could play a key role in Europe’s future

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