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21JUN 2024
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Can Potato still be saved ?
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 fungal strains of Phytophthora infestans . The German Farmers’ […]
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13JUN 2024
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Visit to KWS in Einbeck – Insights into the world of seed breeding
On June 7, 2024, three doctoral students had the opportunity to visit the plant breeding and biotechnology company KWS in Einbeck and take part in the TalentCampus. The event allowed us to take a look behind the scenes of the breeding company’s research and development departments. We visited the greenhouses and experienced how modern plant […]
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10JUN 2024
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ADAPT Network Meeting in Bonn
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 project partners in the ADAPT project, who […]
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06JUN 2024
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How does Cassava transport its sugars ?
Our latest publication highlights important aspects of the primary metabolism of cassava (Manihot esculenta) by describing the most likely pathway of sugars from source to sink by combining computational, biochemical and anatomical methods. Cassava, unlike potato and other staple crops, is a perennial woody shrub. Woody plants generally prefer a symplasmic mode of phloem loading, […]
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15APR 2024
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Upcoming lecture of Prof. Dr. Ute Vothknecht
The Chair of Biochemistry invites: Lecture given by Prof. Dr. Ute Vothknecht from the University of Bonn: The interplay between ABA, JA and SA during drought stress response in Arabidopsis and potato Time and location: Thursday, April 18th 2024, 3:30 pm, Lecture hall C, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen Invitation as PDF: https://www.biochemie.nat.fau.de/files/2024/04/Lecture20240418_UteVothknecht.pdf
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09APR 2024
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Lisa Koch wins Talk Award at Conference “Molecular Biology of Plants“ in Hennef
The 37th Conference „Molecular Biology of Plants“ took place in Hennef from the 4th until the 7th of march. Two of our PhD students – Yannick Schnauhuber and Lisa Koch – attended the Conference to present their current research. Lisa Koch gave a talk with the title: “Yield reduction in potato caused by heat and […]
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