Horticultural Supply Chains Group
HPC-WU is the only academic group focussed on horticulture in the Netherlands and holds a strong position in horticultural research and education in Wageningen. Topics of our research and education are: production, quality- and chain- management of vegetables, cutflowers and potplants. Every year many students from all over the world enroll in our International Master course 'Greenhouse Horticulture'.
About usChair holder (interim)
STAIR meeting
Next meeting TUESDAY June 18
FLOP meeting
Next meeting will be scheduled for September
Our research
The role of the Horticultural Supply Chains Group is to foster the science of the supply chain for crops produced under protected cultivation.
At the Horticulture Supply Chains Group four major Research Areas are discerned:
- I. Environmental physiology of glasshouse crops
- II. Modeling of crop growth and productivity, including the gene-environment interaction
- III. Physiological and cell-biological basis for post-harvest deterioration of cut flowers and vegetables
- IV. modeling of changes in the pre and post-harvest phases of product properties
Our education
HPC-WU plays an important role in the education and training of future executives in the horticultural sector. Graduated horticultural students hold positions in all kind of organizations within this sector (trade organizations, auctions and inspection services), and in commercial companies (seed-growing, breeding, cultivation and supply companies). Other graduates work for government-departments (policy, consultancy), for research institutes (experimental stations and commercial laboratories) or for educational institutions (universities, higher and secondary agricultural education).
Latest publications
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Meristem temperature substantially deviates from air temperature, even in moderate environments: Is the magnitude of this deviation species-specific? (online first)
Plant, Cell and Environment (2013). - ISSN 0140-7791
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Understanding the effect of carbon status on stem diameter variations
Annals of Botany 111 (2013)1. - ISSN 0305-7364 - p. 31 - 46.
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Genetic and QTL analyses of yield and a set of phsyiological traits in pepper
Euphytica 190 (2013)2. - ISSN 0014-2336 - p. 181 - 201.