NWA invitation to explore the potential of NPEC
27 July 2021
One of the themes on the Dutch Science Agenda (Nederlandse Wetenschapsagenda, NWA) is “The sustainable production of safe and healthy food”. As Dutch national plant phenotyping facility, NPEC can play an important role in realizing the research ambitions of the NWA. To highlight this, NPEC and NWA together have prepared a promotion video to invite the Dutch plant research community to exploit the full potential of NPEC.
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