Kung Fu Planta: when plants master self-defense

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Kung fu, judo, karate… Have you always dreamed of learning self-defense, but always end up running away from your enemies? Plants never had this choice! Firmly rooted into the ground, plants cannot flee their hungry enemies and had to learn how to repel or eliminate them. Therefore, after 450 million years of martial training, plants have become masters of self-defense: between their impassable armors, their deadly poisons and their armies of bodyguards, plants are now small fortresses on which many enemies – whether large herbivores or tiny pathogens – have broken their teeth!

During this event, you will step into the endless war that oppose plants to the rest of the world and discover plants’ many enemies and defense strategies. For the time of a game, you will also play as a plant trying to survive and flourish in a hostile world.

Dr. Cloé Villard
Postdoctoral researcher
Biosystematics group, Wageningen University and Research
EPS graduate school

Did you know? Plants are not as innocent as they look: every year, kids playing with the wrong plant end up in the hospital…

KeyGene (gold sponsor)
https://www.keygene.com/

The VLAG Graduate school (silver sponsor)
https://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/en.htm

The EPS Graduate school and SESAM project (bronze sponsors)
https://www.graduateschool-eps.info/
https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Scenario-Evaluation-for-Sustainable-Agro-forestry-Management-SESAM-1.htm