Press Releases

A blueprint for making cereal crops more resistant to fungal disease
Scientists have decoded the structure of a barley protein that provides resistance against a devastating fungal disease. Such structures could inform efforts to protect crops from plant pathogens.
 
Exquisite control of a plant immune pathway revealed 
In a new study published in Nature, researchers working in the groups of Jijie Chai (Westlake University in Hangzhou, China) and Jane Parker (MPIPZ in Cologne, Germany) describe how Arabidopsis plants exert fine-control of a major immune signalling machinery rapid but restricted host cell death after pathogen recognition.
Octoploid genome decoded

Octoploid genome decoded

January 17, 2025
MPIPZ research groups collaborate to produce a fully phased, chromosome-scale genome assembly of Cardamine chenopodiifolia

News

A collaboration between US and German researchers has revealed the surprising identity of a plant factor responsible for susceptibility to fungal disease in the USA’s top barley-growing region. Their…
Researchers of the MPIPZ have developed a technique that enables the breeding of genetically identical hybrid plants
Researchers describe the unusual trait of amphicarpy, where two types of fruit develop on the same plant: one above- and the other below-ground.

Communications

Marc Somssich receives prize from the German Society for Plant Sciences.
The MPIPZ's main lecture hall has been officially named in honour of renowned plant scientist and…
Paul Schulze-Lefert, Jane Parker, Stéphane Hacquard, and Ruben Garrido-Oter “have demonstrated…

Events & Seminars

Melina Schuh: New insights into human eggs and female infertility

Feb 19, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Sundareasan Venkatesan: Gametes to Zygotes to Self-Cloning plants

Mar 5, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Michaela Eder

Mar 12, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

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