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De Vries was in the vanguard of a g
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Fungus lady Ritzema Bos permitted h
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ulbs to rot in the ground before sp
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way confi rming or refuting the fi
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Here, Westerdijk’s two positions
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Diagnostic classifi cation scheme d
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Ministry of the Interior replied a
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That was the epithet that she would
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taxonomy he had orchestrated in 191
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Even so, the faculty calmly maintai
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These negotiations had now been goi
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to, the board of governors of the U
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Inaugural address given by Westerdi
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kingdom. Basing ourselves on the fr
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The disease did not disappear as ab
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In splendid isolation Bea Schwarz a
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It must have all been rather baffl
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In the summer of 1920, the director
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Dinner celebrating Bea Schwarz’s
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the view from the beginning that th
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direct reference to Hugo de Vries
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Youngest servant, Jan Kiljan, in th
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inevitable survival of the fi ttest
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‘Reviewing all the points that ha
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as possibly and incinerate it, to p
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PhD thesis, primarily with a view t
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Westerdijk and Went listening to ra
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since the assistance made available
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hire some character from the slums.
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plant doctor suffers sleepless nigh
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eing causative agents. 27 And in th
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Elm disease One of these lines of r
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In 1934/1935, when the evidence sug
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proved that the disease originated
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Antagonism research Van Luyk, who s
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In various experiments it was const
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Advertisement for expansine. Nederl
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an opportunity to do so, partly bec
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to food production in the Netherlan
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The Delft researchers, as has now b
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friend of Germany who was deployed
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number of cultures from the genera
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the position you adopted, we noneth
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everywhere, we’re used to it thes
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again and has two small children, b
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professor Jo Oort on the board of t
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Professor Adriaan van Herk, in cons
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Louise Kerling, c. 1969. Reproduced
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changes, as a result of which it ma
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Everything needed for education sho
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‘The new wing of the old building
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has no choice but to have it done a
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converted into laboratories for phy
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y the conditions.’ With the aging
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pollen stimulated not only the grow
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Party celebrating Van den Ende’s
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frequently … that others [student
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period. 79 The reaction of the plan
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used critically, and to conduct fur
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A changing world Phytopathological
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Kerling dressed as Mistress Commeli
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ut today, everyone’s responsibili
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Koen Verhoeff, c. 1987. Reproduced
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spend at least an hour and a half t
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work in Baarn was roughly equal to
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Did this safeguard the continuity o
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Research staff and assistants in th
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Foundation (stw). So the project te
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the pathogen, and the soil fl ora.
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which was approved in 1983. Each of
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the pathogen has spread far more to
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Both these hypotheses were investig
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‘Of course everyone used the inst
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Student excursion to the province o
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But that was no reason to sit back
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Three in academic gowns. From left
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government of strong men led by Joo
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council, of bion, the Biology Counc
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and French bean.’ 71 There was no
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she jerks her head upwards, saying
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8 Charity begins at home ‘It has
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‘The government has basically mad
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that treating susceptible cultivate
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Even so, horticulturalists were not
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Mutually enhancing effects ‘Induc
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Resistance and susceptibility proje
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He pauses briefl y. ‘When Verhoef
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Temperature-controlled glasshouse,
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Yet only in June, that same executi
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words, the phytopathology departmen
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340,000 square metres. About half o
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Closure of Villa Java, meeting of 2
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Epilogue May 2005. Minuscule scars
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At the end of the 1980s, btl Bomend
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of defence mechanisms over time. Th
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into a discipline created by and fo
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promised to be capable of solving o
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to the Willie Commelin Scholten Phy
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Acknowledgements After the sale of
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To gain access to confi dential doc
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ipo Instituut voor Plantenziektenku
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Bibliography Appel, O. and J. Weste
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Grantham, C.S.L. (ed.), Agrarian or
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Ritzema Bos, J., ‘Het Phytopathol
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Theunissen, B., ‘Knowledge is pow
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Appendix PhD theses * = research no
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Mulder, D. (m), Biologisch onderzoe
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Dik, A.L. (f), Population dynamics
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Colonial Institute, 86, 87, 90, 91,
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Loeb, Jacques, 24 Löhnis, F.B., 35
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