PhD in Photosynthesis

Two PhD positions within the REAP2SOW programme to study (PhD1) abiotic signals that regulate below‑ground development and (PhD2) above-ground responses to stress and source–sink relationships of quinoa, white lupin and tuberous pea (aardaker, Lathyrus tuberosus)./nThe research focuses on how temperature and water stress affect nitrogen acquisition, photosynthesis, root development and allocation of carbon and nitrogen between source and sink tissues./nProjects employ controlled-environment experiments, targeted root/ nodule/tuber phenotyping, molecular and cellular analyses (histology, microscopy, single-cell and bulk transcriptomics), physiological and whole-plant measurements (gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical spectroscopy), isotope labelling, and multi-modal data integration./nEmbedded within research groups at Wageningen University and Utrecht University with supervision by Prof. Jochem Evers, Dr. Steven Driever, Prof. Viola Willemsen, Dr. Wouter Kohlen, Dr. Martijn van Zanten and Dr. Kaisa Kajala./nLocation: Wageningen, Netherlands.