Iris Kappers

Iris Kappers is affiliated with the Laboratory of Plant Physiology at Wageningen University & Research. Her primary focus is on plant metabolism and agricultural science, particularly in cannabis and cucurbit species. She has contributed to research datasets on plant physiology and collaborates on projects addressing plant responses to environmental conditions like light and temperature.

Her research explores specialized metabolite production in plants under varying environmental conditions, including the effects of light spectra, temperature stress, and pathogen interactions. She has co-developed datasets such as the Cucumber Spider-mite interaction transcriptome and contributed to studies on Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity mechanisms.

In advising roles, she co-supervised four PhD candidates across projects including Physiology of Medicinal Cannabis (since 2022), LEDs make it resilient! (2018–2024), and biological control optimization in Capsicum and cucumber systems. She has also been a collaborator in genome-mining projects.

Her work frequently intersects with plant physiology, metabolomics, and agricultural applications. Active collaborations involve departments focused on plant genetics and environmental stress biology.