Dr Ir Tjeerd-Jan Stomph
Assistant Professor Crop Physiology
Teaching subjects
- CSA-10806: Introduction quantitative ecology (in Dutch)
- CSA-20306: Soil-Plant Relations
- CSA-30806: Research Methods in Crop Science
- YMC-60809: Academic Consultancy Training
Research projects
- Designing a breeding approach to increase stress tolerance and product quality through improving root system architecture in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) for organic and low-input agriculture (Theme 1.1.1)
- Predicting gene-to-phenotype relationships (Theme 1.1.5)
- Farmers' perception and actual use of the fertility of Terra Preta in Colombia (Theme 5.3.1)
- Local perceptions, practices and implications for livelihoods and agrobiodiversity in traditional use of Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta) (Theme 5.3.2)
- Converging ethnography, indigenous knowledge and technical science: improving oil palm processing in the kwaebibirim district, Ghana (Theme 5.4.1)
- Smallholders’ perceptions and analysis of the constraints in the oil palm chain and their innovative practices in Benin (Theme 5.4.2)
- Sustainable production system for hemp textiles (HEMP-SYS)
Recently Finished Projects
- Teff, a new source for gluten free food
- Physiology and modelling of zinc distribution and accumulation in aerobic rice
- Effects of organic matter on Striga hermonthica populations and their impact on Sorghum bicolor in Cameroon
- Organic soil amendments to improve bioavailability of zinc in sorghum grains while simultaneously serving yield and soil and water conservations goals
- Quantification of Striga hermonthica life cycle processes as a basis for Striga seed bank management in West-Africa
Possibilities for MSc thesis
- Assessing and modelling crop behaviour of Arabidopsis
- Zinc translocation in cereals and allocation to grains: source or sink limitations?
- Effects of cowpea on Striga management in Sorghum cropping systems
Personal information
Currently there are two foci in my research work. On the one hand I work on crop-physiological understanding of the Zinc accumulation in cereal grains (mainly sorghum, rice and pearl millet) and integrating this understanding in the analysis of the food chain from soil to human blood in collaboration with scientists in field like soil chemistry and plant nutrition, genetics, QTL based modeling, food technology, human nutrition and (human) epidemiology. On the other I work on integrating crop physiological and crop ecological knowledge in improving cropping systems. There are obviously also links between these two foci. Before this, I was mainly engaged in research on land use inventory and land use planning methodologies and in research on the slope length effects on runoff under different crop husbandry. This latter research focuses on the scaling-up of results from plot of a few square meters to slopes of several hundreds of meters length. Also in this research temporal and spatial variability were focal points. I earned my PhD at Reading University (UK) on research on the crop-physiology of seedling establishment of Pearl Millet in the Sahel. I earned my MSc in biology at Wageningen University (The Netherlands).
Teaching activities involve supervision of PhD and MSc research projects and contributions to BSc and MSc courses with a strong focus on analysis and research methodologies. I am one of the two coordinators of the MSc course on Academic Consultancy Training responsible for overall coordination and development of this University wide integrative course for the majority of the MSc programs the University offers, next to involvement as teacher for parts of this course.
Indicative publications
- Stomph, T.J.; Choi, E.Y.; Stangoulis, J.C.R. (2011). Temporal dynamics in wheat grain zinc distribution: is sink limitation the key? Annals of Botany 107 (6). - p. 927 - 937.
- Ayongwa, G.C.; Stomph, T.J.; Hoevers, R.; Ngoumou, T.N.; Kuyper, T.W. (2010). Striga infestation in northern Cameroon: Magnitude, dynamics and implications for managament. NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 57 (2). - p. 159 - 165.
- Delden, S.H. van; Vos, J.; Ennos, A.R.; Stomph, T.J. (2010). Analysing lodging of the panicle bearing cereal teff (Eragrostis tef). New Phytologist 186 (3). - p. 696 - 707.
- Westerhuis, W.; Amaducci, S.; Struik, P.C.; Zatta, A.; Dam, J.E.G. van; Stomph, T.J. (2009). Sowing density and harvest time affect fibre content in hemp (Cannabis sativa) through their effects on stem weight. Annals of Applied Biology 155 (2). - p. 225 - 244.
- Timmermans, B.G.H.; Vos, J.; Stomph, T.J. (2009). The development, validation and application of a crop growth model to assess the potential of Solanum sisymbriifolium as a trap crop for potato cyst nematodes in Europe. Field Crops Research 111 (1-2). - p. 22 - 31.
- Slingerland, M.A.; Zhang, F.S.; Stomph, T.J.; Gao, X.P.; Liang, J.F.; Jiang, W. (2009). Biofortification in a food chain approach for rice in China. In: Development and Uses of Biofortified Agricultural Products / Bañuelos, G.S., Lin, Z.Q., . - Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2009 - ISBN 9781420060058.
- Jiang, W.; Struik, P.C.; Keulen, H. van; Zhao, M.; Jin, L.N.; Stomph, T.J. (2008). Does increased zinc uptake enhance grain zinc mass concentration in rice? Annals of Applied Biology 153 (1). - p. 135 - 147.
- Mourik, T.A. van; Bianchi, F.J.J.A.; Werf, W. van der; Stomph, T.J. (2008). Long-term management of Striga hermonthica: strategy evaluation with a spatio-temporal population model. Weed Research 48 (4). - p. 329 - 339.
Full list of publications is available.
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