Home Research Scientific Departments Dept. of Plant-Microbe Interactions Research Highlights Research Highlights Revealing the intricacy of plant-bacteria interactions March 13, 2018 A team of researchers from Germany and the US led by Kenichi Tsuda at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne have now developed a method that can be used to probe the complexity of plant-bacteria interactions. [more] Soil resident microbes are resilient to long-term fertilizer application January 26, 2018 New work from a team of scientists headed by Paul Schulze-Lefert at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne [more] Not without my microbiome November 14, 2016 Legume-rhizobia symbiosis influences bacterial community in plant roots [more] When foes become friends May 06, 2016 A few modifications in the genome turn a fungal plant pathogen into a potentially beneficial organism [more] The Art of Being Connected in the Microbial World January 21, 2016 Similar to the skin of humans millions of microbes are living on the surface of a leaf influencing the health and fitness of the plant. [more] Toolkit for microbiota research December 02, 2015 Researchers cultivate the majority of bacteria in the laboratory that colonize Arabidopsis plants in nature [more] Direct capture of a potent bacterial virulence activity by a plant immune receptor pair May 21, 2015 In this article published in Cell, Le Roux et al. (2015), describe an exquisite recognition mechanism in the model plant species Arabidopsis. [more] Show more