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Leadership MPIMP

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) is pleased to announce that as of February 2023, the leadership team at MPI-MP is complete again. With the appointments of Prof. Dr. Claudia Köhler and Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr, the institute has succeeded in hiring two outstanding scientists who will conduct excellent plant research together with Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock.
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1 billion years of abstinence

Chloroplasts finally can hope for sex! more

Breakthrough in plant breeding

Grafting and mobile CRISPR for genome editing in plants more

Some of the world’s most influential plant science happens in Potsdam

Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology rank among the world’s most cited researchers in 2022 more

Plants between light and darkness

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions
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Bayer Acquires Targenomix

Bayer Acquires Targenomix

November 10, 2022

Targenomix, a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, will contribute to Bayer’s R&D pipeline more

Golm scientist receives Jeff Schell Prize for breakthrough in genetic modification of mitochondria

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

Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr head the new department "Root Biology and Symbiosis".

Since April 1st, 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

The mechanism of convergent selection of maize and rice yield.

All roads lead to Rome

April 07, 2022

Possibility of de novo domestication of wild plants by cultivated plants more

Cinderella of chemical biology

Cinderella of chemical biology

February 23, 2022

Small molecules, largely ignored until now, have regulatory functions in stress reduction more

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