Student Projects

(updated regulary)

 

Students with their own ideas for a research topic are encouraged to contact Theo Elzenga

 

Available student projects

(Click on the research topics for a description of the project)

 

• Integration of light and abscisic acid signalling in leaf growth (3)

• Hyponastic response to flooding in the flood-tolerant species Rumex palustris

• Glutamate receptors in plants

• The involvement of brassinosteroids in light-induced leaf expansion

• Characterization of light-induced leaf cell expansion

• The Ballerina mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana

• The structure-function relationships of the brassinosteriod receptor of Tomato and Arabidopsis

• Can we predict seeds to successfully germinate by using fancy MIFE techniques?

• Plants' sulfur metabolism and its significance in adaptation to the environment (dutch / english) (5)

• Receptor like kinases involved in abiotic stress

• The relation between the number of receptors present in a plant and its habitat

• The characterization of ion-fluxes triggered by systemin perception in tomato with the use of MIFE