Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching study all sorts of objects outside the Earth – but they do set priorities. They investigate our Milky Way, and discovered a few years ago that its centre harbours a gigantic black hole. They study the physics and dynamics of the interstellar matter and the development of galaxies; they …
Molecules boosting plant immunity identified - Max Planck Society
Jul 7, 2022 · Two studies published by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany in collaboration with colleagues in China have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive critical plant immune responses. These compounds have all the hallmarks of being small messengers tailored by plants to turn on key defense-control hubs. Harnessing these insights may ...
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Carrying out basic molecular biological research on plants. The goal of the Cologne-based scientists is to improve conventional breeding methods and to develop environmentally-friendly plant protection strategies for crops.
Like dad and like mum...all in one plant - Max Planck Society
May 13, 2024 · In a new study, led by Charles Underwood from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, scientists established a system to generate clonal sex cells in tomato plants and used them to design the genomes of offspring. The fertilization of a clonal egg from one parent by a clonal sperm from another parent led to plants containing the complete genetic information of ...
MPI for Structure and Dynamics of Matter - Max Planck Society
With the help of new radiation sources, especially the x-ray free-electron laser being built at the DESY in Hamburg, physicists and biologists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter study the properties and behavior of matter.
de Mink, Selma E.
Selma de Mink studied physics and mathematics at Utrecht University and finished her PhD there with a thesis on “Stellar evolution at low metallicity” in 2010. Postdoc positions at the University of Bonn, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and the California Institute for Technology and Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena. Professor at …
Grafting and mobile CRISPR for genome editing in plants
Jan 3, 2023 · A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool – aka “genetic scissors” – is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signalling a methodology change. The discovery could simplify and speed up the development of novel, genetically stable commercial crop varieties by combining grafting with a ‘mobile’ CRISPR tool.
Prof. Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl - Max Planck Society
Franz-Ulrich Hartl ist Direktor und Wissenschaftliches Mitglied am Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
The mission of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is to understand the function, communication and interaction of microorganisms with their environment, to describe them with the aid of mathematical models and to modify them in a targeted manner using synthetic-biological approaches. What processes underlie their …
Weigel, Detlef - Max Planck Society
Detlef Weigel is a Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen