Press Releases

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) is pleased to announce that as of February 2023, the leadership team at MPI-MP is complete again. With the appointments of Prof. Dr. Claudia Köhler and Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr, the institute has succeeded in hiring two outstanding scientists who will conduct excellent plant research together with Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock.
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Chloroplasts finally can hope for sex! more

Grafting and mobile CRISPR for genome editing in plants more

Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology rank among the world’s most cited researchers in 2022 more

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions
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Targenomix, a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, will contribute to Bayer’s R&D pipeline more

This year, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam honours again a young scientist for his pioneering research on plant mitochondria. more

Since April 1^st, 2022, Prof. Dr. Gutjahr is a new director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. She is setting up the department "Root Biology and Symbiosis". more

Possibility of de novo domestication of wild plants by cultivated plants more

Small molecules, largely ignored until now, have regulatory functions in stress reduction more