Press Releases

BY: Diego Orzaez and Markus Schmidt [more]

Breeding has had influenced the chemical composition and taste of tomato [more]

How plants can be transformed into bio-factories [more]

Surfaces with unusual structures, minimalist urban silhouettes - Christof Wegner exhibition at the Max Planck campus [more]

Scientists from China and Germany announced the sequence of the hexaploid sweet potato [more]

A clever strategy to protect plants against herbivores could be used as an attractive alternative to chemical pest control [more]

Within KLAS – “Knowledge Link through Art and Science” – the Max Planck Institutes of Colloids and Interfaces and Molecular Plant Physiology invite for the first time contemporary artists to develop their own project at the Potsdam-Golm Science Park (Germany) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). In the course of this eight month pioneering project, artists will work side by side with researchers in order to develop a new artwork bridging contemporary art practices and scientific research. [more]

The director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology established new directions in plant science [more]

The yearbook of the Max Planck Society illustrates the research carried out at our institutes. We selected a few reports from our 2017 yearbook to illustrate the variety and diversity of topics and projects. [more]

The program brings artists and scientists together [more]