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User-friendly assessment of pavement cell shape features with PaCeQuant: Novel functions and tools

Scientists led by Katharina Bürstenbinder (IPB), together with bioinformaticians from the Halle University and the German…

Optimized protocol for Fingerprinting of Rhizobial Free Fatty Acids

IPB scientists, in close cooperation with Russian researchers, have published a straightforward protocol for the quantification of free fatty acids from…

Anthelmintic and antimicrobial compounds from Indonesian lichen Parmelia cetrata Ach.

IPB chemists recently published an extensive phytochemical study of Parmelia cetrata, a foliose lichen from Indonesia. They successfully…

The auxin-prompted dance between TIR1 and AUX/IAA proteins demands a hug that helps plants to grow

Plants have the astounding ability to thrive and adapt in environments that more often than not, are hostile. Signaling…

Better Cas9 efficiency for gene knock-out in plants.

A team led by Sylvestre Marillonnet recently published a preprint of a study in which they tried to optimize the Cas9 enzyme for gene editing in plants. In plants,…

Sulfation switch in the shade.

Pollen Surface Replenished: A tapetal flavonoid transporter in Arabidopsis.

IPB researchers have now identified a gene encoding for a transporter responsible for translocating flavonoid glycosides to the surface of…

Senescence master regulator ORE1 is a direct substrate of CPK1 in Arabidopsis.

Professor Tina Romeis, and her partners of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 973 “Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress“,…

Synthesis of lipidated cyclo-peptides as promising anti-phytopathogenic agents.

Together with Cuban and Chilean scientists, IPB chemists have developed a multicomponent-based approach for the synthesis of cyclic…

Fungal higginsianin B inhibits plant immune responses.

IPB scientists, in cooperation with international plant researchers, have identified a natural compound from the fungus and plant pathogen Colletotrichum higginsianum…