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Press Releases

The press department of the MPI-MP publishes press releases on mayor scientific discoveries, projects and events taking place at the institute. If you need additional information or material, please do not hesitate to contact the press information officers.

The inner struggle of the evening primrose

March 14, 2019

Chloroplasts of mother and father are caught up in an evolutionary arms race [more]

Highly cited researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology named in global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List

November 27, 2018

Highly Cited Researcher 2018 List identifies influential researchers now in its fifth year. [more]

European scientists unite to safeguard precision breeding for sustainable agriculture

October 24, 2018

More than 75 european Scientist have endorsed a position paper to safeguard innovation in plant science and agriculture. [more]

More than 6 million Euros for research of internal communication in plants

October 23, 2018

Plant researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, at the University Hamburg, and the John Innes Centre received a “Synergy Grant” of the European Research Council (ERC) [more]

#wonachsuchstdu: Max Planck Day on September 14th, 2018

September 10, 2018

Young filmmakers explore the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam-Golm. In Berlin, a science party takes place. [more]

Water or Land?

August 06, 2018

It doesn't matter - Plants control their photosynthesis similarly, regardless of their origin [more]

Otto Hahn Medal for Sanja Sviben

June 11, 2018

Sanja Sviben has been awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society (MPG). She will receive the award during the annual meeting of the MPG, which takes place from June 13th-14th in Heidelberg. The society recognizes her outstanding doctoral thesis on the investigation of the mechanisms and the machinery underlying the biomineralization of calcium carbonate in coccolithophorid algae. [more]