News 2019

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…

To honor the important field of new biotechnological processes, the Leibniz Research Alliance Bioactive Compounds and Biotechnology awarded the Prize “Leibniz Biotechnology Process 2019”. The research…

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.…

Obituary on Benno Parthier published in Plant Molecular Biology

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…

On October 29, 80 pupils from the Georg Cantor Special High School for Mathematics and Natural Sciences got a guided tour at the IPB and the Weinberg Campus to gain an insight into day-to-day research…

On 21st and 22nd of October, scientists met at the PhytoAD Symposium in the IPB to present their latest research on plant bioactives. They discussed natural drugs from St. John's wort (Hypericum…

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…