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Improved stability of parallel β-Sheets via multicomponent reaction.

In contrast to the myriad of methods available to produce α-helices and antiparallel β-sheets in synthetic peptides, just a few…

Comparative review on synthesis of cell wall polysaccharides in orthogonal hosts.

Plant cells are surrounded by an extracellular matrix that consists mainly of polysaccharides. Many molecular…

Plant-Insect Bioassay for Testing Arabidopsis Resistance to the Herbivore S. littoralis.
Jasmonates are essential engineers of plant defense responses against many pests, including herbivorous…

Drivers of the composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities.

Recently, a team of researchers including IPB scientists, published a comprehensive study on the bacterial communities of the…

Glandular trichomes: micro‐organs with model status?

Glandular trichomes are epidermal outgrowths that are the site of biosynthesis and storage of large quantities of specialized metabolites.…

Phosphorylation-dependent control of an RNA granule-localized protein that finetunes defence gene expression at a post-transcriptional level.

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are key…

Chemical Diversity of Secondary Metabolites in nine Bryophyte Species

Novel organic selenides with increased cytotoxic selectivity for hepatocellular carcinoma and breast adenocarcinoma.

In cooperation with the IPB, scientists from Egypt and Saudi Arabia synthesized…

Researchers characterize genes in a pathogenicity gene cluster of the maize anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum graminicola.

To avoid PAMP (pathogen-associated molecular pattern) recognition, the…

Improving MetFrag with statistical learning of fragment annotations.

Molecule identification is a crucial step in metabolomics and environmental sciences. Besides in silico fragmentation, as…