Press Releases

Hybrid crops with all the traits of their parents
Researchers of the MPIPZ have developed a technique that enables the breeding of genetically identical hybrid plants
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.

Communications

Successful project start of the MSCA-COFUND project Reconstruction Biology in Plant Science Doctoral…

An ear for frogs

July 30, 2024

Jozefien Van de Velde from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne traveled…

Events & Seminars

Christine Faulkner: Neighbours, friends and enemies: cell-to-cell communication during plant defence

Dec 4, 2024 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPIPZ, Room: Lecture hall

Ross Sozzani: The Goldilocks principle, just the right amount of growth

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

Stephen I. Wright

Dec 18, 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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