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26SEP 2022
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Botany Conference 2022 – Bonn
After a one-year delay due to the pandemic, the International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences was able to take place in Bonn in August of this year. Here, all the latest findings from plant science are presented, which were under the motto “Plant science for a sustainable future” depicting an important topic in view […]
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19SEP 2022
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A walk in the woods
After pandemic years were no annual works outing was possible we gathered in the green hills near Ebermannstadt for a hiking tour which lead us on a 6 mile long Planet trail. We enjoyed a great barbecue event at the Sonnewald home in the evening.
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13SEP 2022
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One more step towards cassava yield improvement
The Cassava Source-Sink consortium was able to hold its first in persona meeting in Bonn Bad-Godesberg since the start of the pandemic. International experts in plant biotechnology, plant metabolism, plant development and phenotyping gathered near the beautiful Rhine River to exchange new results from cassava research and to discuss next steps towards cassava yield improvement. […]
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29AUG 2022
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Pleiotropy – the multiple effects of a single mutation!
In 1866, Gregor Mendel identified, when performing his famous experiments with peas, that some traits always show correlations with other traits e.g. plants with colored seed coats always exhibited colored flowers and leaf axils. This observation led to the discovery of a phenomenon known as pleiotropy. It describes the effect a single mutation or gene […]
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04JUL 2022
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Too much can be problematic
Under natural conditions, photosynthesis has to be adapted to fluctuating light intensities. Leaves exposed to strong light shed excess light energy in the form of heat at Photosystem II (PSII) through a process called non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). During the rapid transition from light to shade, plants lose light energy through a relatively slow relaxation of […]
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04JUL 2022
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Plant Vascular Biology Conference
The countdown is on, only two weeks left until the sixth international Plant Vascular Biology Conference in Berlin. The conference with about 150 participants is organized by the Biochemistry Chair together with the Universities of Würzburg and Hamburg and the MPI_MPP in Golm. A great program and many international experts promise an interesting conference on […]
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