- Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Gene expression and cancer classification
Aeres University of Applied Sciences
2025
University of Amsterdam
2014-2020
Amsterdam University of the Arts
2015
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2014
Thrips are one of the most challenging pests in agricultural crops, including Chrysanthemum . In this study we tested via two plant assays whether solutions containing sticky rice germ oil (RGO) droplets could effectively trap thrips and lower damage on first assay, additionally assessed metabolomic effects these RGO droplet sprays presence chemistry 1 H NMR headspace GC-MS multiple timepoints to investigate which metabolites were affected by spraying their potential relation resistance...
When two related species interbreed, their hybrid offspring frequently suffer from reduced fitness. The genetics of incompatibility are described by the Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller (BDM) model, where fitness is epistatic interactions between alleles heterospecific origin. Unfortunately, most empirical evidence for BDM model comes a few well-studied organisms, restricting our genetic understanding incompatibilities to limited taxa. These systems predominantly diploid and often complete, which...
Marine lakes, with populations in landlocked seawater and clearly delineated contours, have the potential to provide a unique model study early stages of evolution coastal marine taxa. Here we ask whether mussel Brachidontes from lakes Berau, East Kalimantan (Indonesia) are isolated each other mangrove systems. We analyzed sequence data one mitochondrial marker (Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI)), two nuclear markers (18S 28S). In addition, examined shell shape using geometric morphometric...
Plant defense suppression is an offensive strategy of herbivores, in which they manipulate plant physiological processes to increase their performance. Paradoxically, does not always benefit the defense-suppressing because lowered defenses can also enhance performance competing herbivores and expose increased predation. Suppression may therefore entail considerable ecological costs depending on presence competitors natural enemies a community. Hence, we hypothesize that optimal magnitude...