Press Releases

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The molecular memory of plants

July 26, 2021

Heat stress procures the capacity for remembering in plant cells more

Dipetides to the rescue

June 22, 2021

How small molecules help plants cope with stress more

Sun light heats up plant evolution

June 10, 2021

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

How plants stabilize their water pipes

January 28, 2021

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

Getting shapes into numbers

January 19, 2021

A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapes more

Chloroplasts on the move

January 09, 2021

How different plants can share their genetic material with each other more

Jeff Schell Prize Award Ceremony 2020 under Corona Conditions

December 18, 2020

PhD student and postdoc receive the Young Scientist Award of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology endowed with 2500 Euro each more

Potsdam scientists have a great influence on the field of plant research

November 18, 2020

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology are among the world's most cited researchers in 2020 more

Research at the interface of seed development, epigenetics and evolution

October 16, 2020

Professor Claudia Köhler has been appointed as new director of department II at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) more

Obituary for Arren Bar-Even

September 29, 2020

With great sadness, we have to announce the sudden, untimely and tragic death of our colleague Arren Bar-Even who passed away last week at the age of 40. more