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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…

First metabolite profiling of roasted date pits proves their suitability as a coffee substitute.

IPB chemists and Egyptian scientists recently carried out first scientific investigations regarding the suitability of…

Detection of anthraquinones in complex mixtures.

IPB chemists have recently published an efficient approach for the detection of anthraquinones in complex mixtures of compounds. For the identification of these natural…

Glucagon and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptors: Promising Therapeutic Targets

Hidayat Hussain, guest researcher at IPB, together with partners from Oman, has published a review article on the structural diversity of…

Bioactives from Ethiopian torch lilies.

With the participation of the IPB, scientists have published a study on bioactives from Ethiopian torch lilies (Kniphofia foliosa Hochst). They analyzed the biological activity of the…