As a result, we can offer our clients direct access to the fundamental research and education opportunities of Wageningen University, the innovative research of Plant Research International, and the knowledge, expertise and products of the other Science Groups within Wageningen UR. But we also cooperate with a large number of universities and organisations for strategic and applied research throughout the world.
Examples of cooperation:
- Wageningen Tissue Culture Centre WTCC)
The WTCC aims to co-ordinate and fine-tune both research as well as education on technologies using tissue culture in one form or another.
- Wageningen UR-Glasshouse Horticulture
Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture continuously develops new concepts and components for greenhouse production systems. Current projects include air conditioned cultivation, energy-producing greenhouses and fully automated production systems. Activities also include optimization of existing greenhouse horticulture systems by the development of new crop protection strategies and growing methods, optimal environmental control, crop growth control, innovative energy saving technology and economic farming.
- Knowledge and Information Centre Small Fruit
DLV Plant and PPO Fruit (Applied Plant Research) work together in the Knowledge and Information Centre Small Fruit (KICK). The first experiments were started in spring 2009 on a field of appr. 5 500 m2, which is based on the research station in Randwijk. KICK’s ambition is to develop into a central knowledge organisation for the (woody) small fruit sector with strong links with the sector itself and scientific research.
Demonstrations and experiments cover a large number of themes. Subjects in the first year are, e.g., regrowth of young plants, substrate choice container culture, blackberry gall mite control, branch mortality in red currants by Eutypa, and control of fruit rot and mildew in currants. And there will be various demonstration objects with organic cultivation methods of woody small fruit. Besides a rain cover construction and a closed tunnel, a container and recirculation field will be laid out as well, which enables collection of excess water for possible recirculation.