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Isabel, you were brought in at a pivotal moment, when Aphea.Bio was looking for investors.

This new collaboration grants Plant Impact exclusive development access and a licensing option to  these patent-pending small molecules identified at VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology.

The increasing energy demand, depletion of fossil feedstock and global warming make a shift from today’s fossil-based economy towards a bio-based economy inevitable.

Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding methodologies, researchers will develop new varieties of tobacco and its wild relative Nicotiana benthamiana to produce added-value compounds such as antibodies, vaccines and drugs in a sustainab

Soil is extremely diverse in terms of microbial life, and it is fascinating that roots engage in mutualistic interactions with some of these, but repel others. We still have no clear idea how this discrimination works.

“EMBO Members are leading scientists working across all of the life sciences. They also strengthen the research community in Europe and beyond through their international collaborations and connections,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin.

Witnessing our company’s launch last year felt a bit like seeing the birth of my own (brain)child. And looking back on the last four years, I remember mainly positive and exciting moments.

This development of agriculture is still in full swing, because the challenges for the future are no less: the world population will continue to increase until at least 2100; the current agriculture puts immense pressure on fertile soil and on nat

The lab of Prof. Moritz Nowack (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) investigates the regulation of these plant cell death processes in the model plant Arabidopsis.

Crop improvement has been done for centuries by means of conventional plant breeding techniques, all leading to genetic changes in the plant.