Press Releases

Dr. Kin Pan Chung, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) in Potsdam Germany, receives an ERC Starting Grant worth € 1.5 million for the project “CytoInP” to investigate cytoplasmic inheritance in plants. This prestigious grant will enable Chung to expand his newly established team at the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, where he will realize this ambitious endeavor.
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Dr. David Rolo and Dr. Nicolas Butel receive the Jeff Schell Prize for excellent young scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
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Postdoctoral researcher from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology receives prestigious fellowship. more

Alexander Förderer from the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology receives €2.85 million from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to study the harmful and beneficial relationships between plants and the microbes that surround them.
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From May 22^nd to 24^th, a delegation of 15 doctoral researchers from the Potsdam-Golm Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP) visited the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne. This was the first inter-MPI event connecting PhD students from the two plant institutes, initiated by the PhD representatives of both institutes.
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Scientists discover key regulators of seed development in a parental stalemate more

Max Planck Institute in Potsdam receives EU funding of 2.5 million euros for groundbreaking research on plant mitochondria.
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How biofortification can improve nutrition more

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology unravel the biosynthetic pathway of paclitaxel in Yew plants, a most successfully used chemotherapeutic for cancer treatment. This discovery might facilitate the production of this very complex molecule which is currently produced with great efforts and high costs.
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Top researcher from Potsdam receives €2 million for research into an underground relationship between plants and fungi. more