News 2020

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…

The prize Leibniz Drug of the Year 2020 was awarded to the team of Prof. Christian Hertweck from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology in Jena for the discovery of…

Joint press release by IPB, University of Leipzig and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), 12.5.2020

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,…

Research integrity even more important for research during a pandemic16 April 2020 Research integrity remains crucial in the COVID-19 crisis, given the need for robust, evidence-based conclusions,…

Bio- and chemoinformaticians from the IPB participated in this year's #EUvsVirus-Hackathon as a team of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Bioactive Compounds and Biotechnology".

Their goal was to…

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…

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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…