Press Releases

Buried treasure: a plant that makes flowers and fruits underground
Researchers describe the unusual trait of amphicarpy, where two types of fruit develop on the same plant: one above- and the other below-ground.
Changes in the shape of the shoot apex are synchronized with floral transition in Arabidopsis
In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the group of George Coupland at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, show that the reciprocal repression of two genes at the plant apex synchronises changes in meristem shape with the floral transition in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Switching leaf shapes

Switching leaf shapes

June 24, 2024
Researchers discover a genetic switch in plants that can turn simple spoon-shaped leaves into complex leaves with leaflets

News

3rd Biannual Early Career Researchers’ Conference to be hosted by MPIPZ
From September 18th to 20th, 2024 the third „Early Career Researchers’ Conference“ will be held in Germany, at Kloster Steinfeld and at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Cologne.

Communications

An ear for frogs

July 30, 2024

Jozefien Van de Velde from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne traveled…
Open Minds scholarship holders visited the MPIPZ

Events & Seminars

Libo Shan: Functional and Evolutionary Dynamics of Peptide-Receptor Signaling in Plant Immunity

Oct 9, 2024 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Lila Fishman

Oct 23, 2024 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Julia Santiago Cuellar

Oct 30, 2024 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Career

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

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