The Institute

Interdisciplinary Research

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is a non-university research center of the Leibniz Association. It was originally founded in 1958 by Kurt Mothes as one of the research institutes of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. From the beginning, the research focus of the IPB was on plant natural products including hormones. Within four research departments, more than 150 staff scientists, students and guest researchers investigate in a multidisciplinary style structure and function of natural products from plants and fungi, analyze interactions of plants with pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms and study molecular interactions as part of complex biological processes.

 The institute is a member of the Leibniz  Society (WGL; www.wgl.de).