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Prof. Dr. Uwe Sonnewald attended the 5th International Conference on Plant Metabolism (ICPM2024) which took place from November 21-25, 2024 in Sanya, China. The conference, which takes place every three years, focused on the topic of “Plant Metabolism and Design Breeding”. The focus was on aspect...

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How do genetics influence heat tolerance in potato? Climate change increases the occurrence of heat waves and other extreme weather conditions, which are a particular challenge for sensitive crops such as potatoes. Improving heat tolerance in potato is a topic that the Department of Biochemistry ...

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Prof. Dr. Uwe Sonnewald is inviting to the upcoming PlantER lecture given by PD Dr. Ljudmilla Borisjuk , IPK Gatersleben: Title:  Seeing plants as never before Time: Thursday, Dec. 12 2024, 2:15 PM Location:  Lecture Hall B , Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen Notice with Abstract: ( PDF )

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On July 23, a class from the Fachoberschule Nuremberg visited the Chair of Biochemistry. The students are already preparing for their seminar papers in the upcoming school year around the topic "Sustainable Innovations: The Role of Genetic Engineering in Environmental Protection and Resource Conserv...

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Researchers from the Chair of Biochemistry, together with partners from the CASS research network, investigated the question of why provitamin A-rich cassava roots ("yellow cassava") have a reduced starch content. The results have now been published in The Plant Journal (Gutschker et al., 2024). It ...

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In addition to heat, late blight is threatening the potato harvest in Europe. In order to protect the harvest, farmers are dependent on plant protection products whose effectiveness and range of application are decreasing due to new EU regulations and the development of resistant and aggressive fung...

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At the end of May, the members of the EU-funded ADAPT project met for a two-day project meeting in Bonn (photo). Following previous years' network meetings in Brno (CZE), Wageningen (NLD) and Ljubljana (SVN), this was the fourth and final meeting of the European wide academic and industrial proje...

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