Using the crucifer Cardamine hirsuta researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) uncovered how enhancer evolution contributed to differences in leaf shape within this plant family.

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, the Fox lab from Duke University, USA, and the Roeder lab from Cornell University, USA, developed a new computational pipeline

Researchers in the groups of George Coupland at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne and their collaborators have elegantly shed new light on the existing model for how florigen and two other proteins interact at the shoot apex. The results have now been published in Nature.

Leaf epidermal cells have very different sizes and ploidy levels (the number of chromosome sets), but what actually controls their size and how these cells become organized within the tissue remains unclear. A collaborative and interdisciplinary study involving imaging, quantitative analyses, and modeling has been published in PLOS Biology by the groups of Pau Formosa-Jordan at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and Adrienne Roeder at Cornell University, which finally brings the pieces together.
 

Together with our University partners in Cologne and Düsseldorf we train about 90 mostly international doctoral students and are inviting talented young researchers to apply for individual open positions and to our structured IMPRS programme.

Since 2019, all MPIPZ postdocs take part of a Career Development Program. This program aims to support them success in their careers.