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New probes for early tumor detection

IPB chemists and their partners at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences produced a series of…

New findings on OPDA: No signaling effect in the early wound response 

The plant stress hormone jasmonic acid (JA) and its bioactive form jasmonoyl isoleucine (JA-Ile) play a central role in the…

The IPB has once again been recognized for its exemplary actions in terms of equal opportunity-oriented personnel and organizational policies and has received the TOTAL E-QUALITY certification for the…

The Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) has been organised by students from the two Leibniz institutes, IPK and IPB, every year for the last 20 years. In this interview, Christina Wäsch (IPK) and…

Over 600 guests came to the IPB on July 4 for the Long Night of Sciences to learn lots of new things and put their knowledge to the test at our science quiz course. This year, our program was aimed…

Our 10th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium on May 7 and 8 was a great success. This year's theme was new methods and research approaches in natural product chemistry. The excellent presentations on…

Omani medicinal plant in the focus of phytochemistry
IPB scientists and partners from Dhofar University recently took a closer phytochemical look at the Omani medicinal plant Terminalia dhofarica.…

Flavor is predictable: With FlavorMiner.
FlavorMiner is the name of the tool recently developed by IPB chemists and partners from Colombia. Based on machine learning, the program can predict the most…

During the Leibniz Conference on Bioactive Compounds, on April 9, 2025, the “Leibniz Drug of the Year 2025” has been awarded to Dr. Ibrahim Morgan, Dr. Robert Rennert, Dr. Tuvshinjargal Budragchaa und…

A joint press release of the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry