Press Releases

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

Changes in carotenoid metabolism can simultaneously influence yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional content in plants more

New method in algae research could lead to future yield increases in crops more

Heat stress procures the capacity for remembering in plant cells more

How small molecules help plants cope with stress more

Climate change and ice ages bestow new species on evening primroses more

New techniques allow live-observation of forming cell walls in the vascular tissue more