JII in stories
Dr Jan Ingen Housz MD FRS
Norman and Elaine Beale
How Jan IngenHousz’s fascination with plants changed the world
David M. Kramer
Resource
Doing more with sunlight
NRC
Light in the darkness: How do you streamline the messy process of photosynthesis?
Prophyta
Pursuing more efficient photosynthesis
Resource
In ‘Uncle’ Jan’s footsteps
Trouw
Can we improve agricultural crops by engineering their photosynthesis?
Omroep Gelderland
Here the big secret behind photosynthesis is being unraveled
BNNVARA
Institute in Wageningen wants to unlock the secrets of photosynthesis
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Are you a passionate researcher and concerned with photosynthesis? Are you a researcher at a university or research institution and see opportunities for collaboration? Or is a position at the Jan IngenHousz Institute something for you? Get in touch!
In the near future, you can also participate in research through our open scientific platform that is accessible to a community of hundreds of research groups around the world. The platform enables this broad community to measure photosynthesis in new ways in many crops.
Be part of our research team
Improving photosynthesis in crops is too big of a challenge to be solved by one laboratory and can only be approached by bringing together different disciplines and efforts - from engineering, data science, biochemistry, physics, crop breeding and agriculture and ultimately farmers.
JII researchers aim to integrate knowledge and technology into an accessible, open platform that will move the science beyond the confines of the traditional laboratory and use the real world as the laboratory. Using advanced photosynthesis sensors and data science tools, they continuously record in detail how photosynthesis responds to changes in, for example, light, temperature and humidity. This happens in many thousands of plants in the field.
The platform will enable researchers to watch the inner workings of photosynthesis as it occurs and they can then use this information to determine why plants are not more productive. By doing this in many thousands of plant varieties, they can identify differences in genes that drive these processes and the world can work together to improve multiple crops in multiple regions simultaneously. Scientists can share insights and approaches to develop new crop varieties that produce more food more efficiently and sustainably while being more resilient to climate change.
What does the Jan IngenHousz Institute do differently?
Are you a passionate researcher and concerned with photosynthesis? Are you a researcher at a university or research institution and see opportunities for collaboration? Or is a position at the Jan IngenHousz Institute something for you? Get in touch!
In the near future, you can also participate in research through our open scientific platform that is accessible to a community of hundreds of research groups around the world. The platform enables this broad community to measure photosynthesis in new ways in many crops.
Be part of our research team
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