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Comparison of tomato varieties.

IPB scientists, together with researchers from China and Egypt, have now once again proven that tomatoes are very healthy. In their study in Food Chemistry, the team…

Multi-Omics: More flavor for cocoa and chocolate.

Complex fermentation and roasting processes of harvested cocoa beans determine the quality of chocolate. Standardization and a better…

Taxonomy with chemistry: phylogenetic tree of liverwort metabolites.

The characterization and classification of biological species is a fundamental component of biodiversity research. In integrative…

"Plants as Masters of Resilience" is the motto of our 8^th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium. This year, the institute's conference will be held in memory of our former Managing Director Dierk…

Moss metabolomics uncovers environmental effects.

Scientists from the IPB, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the University of Brunswick in Canada recently analyzed…

Pharmacy from the sea.

IPB guest scientist Hidayat Hussain, together with drug experts from all over the world, has published a comprehensive review article on marine organisms as a source of…

High density of bioactives in Piper sarmentosum plants.

IPB chemists have recently investigated the constituents of Piper sarmentosum Roxb. Chemical analysis of the leaves resulted in the extraction…

IPB Press Release, 06. 02. 2023

As of January 1, 2023, Martin Weissenborn moved over completely to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) to become Professor of "Bioorganic Chemistry." In 2016, the chemist was appointed…