Press Releases

Scientists of the Institute are researching a small molecule that, like insulin in humans and animals, regulates sugar metabolism and transport and the synthesis of storage reserves in plants. [more]

Invitation to an online exhibition with piano music. Due to the corona pandemic, public events in cultural and scientific fields have been canceled. The exhibition wants to offer a crossover between culture and science. [more]

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm, led by Dr. Arren Bar-Even, has succeeded in reprogramming the diet of the bacterium E. coli in such a way that it can use formic acid or methanol as its sole source of nutrition. These simple organic compounds can be produced efficiently from carbon dioxide (CO₂) by chemical processes, so that this greenhouse gas could be used sensibly in the future and its contribution to climate change could be reduced. [more]

Researchers from the Potsdam Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, as part of the international C₄ Rice Project, have just been re-funded by a grant to the University of Oxford from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth $15 million. [more]

Science academies and the DFG have offered recommendations on how European genetic engineering legislation can be amended as a short-term solution and completely renewed in the long term [more]

Highly cited researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology named in global Highly Cited Researchers 2019 List. [more]

New insights into the regulation of flowering: Besides light, temperature, age, and energy status, the soil nitrate level has an impact on the timing of flowering. [more]

117 research facilities appeal to the newly elected bodies to remove obstacles for breeding new plant varieties [more]

How genes from leaf cells affect root growth. [more]

This year, it was junior scientists from Pakistan and China who received awards from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology [more]