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20/11/2019 - Each year, Clarivate analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers who have been cited most frequently by their peers over the last decade. No less than 18 VIB researchers are part of this highly acclaimed group of influential scientists.
10/10/2019 - A team from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, led by Thomas Jacobs, Moritz Nowack, and Tom Beeckman has devised a CRISPR-based tissue-specific knockout system, CRISPR-TSKO.
11/04/2019 - The labs of Ive De Smet and Tom Beeckman (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology), together with researchers from the UK, Germany and Denmark identified a novel component that controls the development of root branches supporting plants.
16/04/2015 - Cell sorting technology enables rapid separation of large numbers of specific cell populations with high purity, recovery, and yield, starting from single cell suspensions.
07/11/2008 - Scientists from VIB at Ghent University have succeeded in converting annual plants into perennials. They discovered that the deactivation of two genes in annuals led to the formation of structures that converted the plant into a perennial.
24/10/2008 - VIB researchers at Ghent University have discovered the substance that governs the formation of root offshoots in plants, and how it works. Root offshoots are vitally important for plants – and for farmers.
25/10/2005 - VIB researchers have analyzed a complete plant genome in order to identify the genes that are essential for the formation of capillary roots - the key to a plant’s further growth and development.