Obligate plant pathogens cannot survive without their host plant. Therefore, understanding how the plant and its microbiome respond to the obligate biotrophs has real challenges in making sure that the response that is being monitored is not an artifact of the experimental step up. A recent study by Goossens et al. showed how the phyllosphere […]
Research Data Management for plant scientists just got easier with the newly released PLANTdataHub. In this platform, you can register your data which will be organized in Annotated Research Contexts (ARCs). ARCS are Findable Accessible Interoperable Reproducible (FAIR) digital Objects which are the best practices for storing plant data. PLANTdataHub allows you to version your […]
In over 350 years, scientific publishing has evolved and shaped the academic community to such lengths that “Publish or Perish” is almost the “anthem” of science. But how did it all start? The beginning of scientific publishing Before 1655, scholars would communicate their findings via letters, books, and presentations (Hoskin, n.d.). One of the first […]
In 2020, just 26% of professors in the Netherlands were women. This low percentage represents a battle for equality that started more than 100 years ago with one of the most influential female scientists and professors in the Netherlands: Johanna Westerdijk. Gender Gap The first female professor in the Netherlands was Johanna Westerdijk (1883- […]