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for Plant Breeding Research - Plant Developmental Biology (MPIZ)
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Section overview
Description
Plants spend their life in one position, and thrive in locations where they are exposed to a wide variety of environmental conditions. This versatility is possible because plants continuously monitor and respond to environmental stimuli such as light, temperature and the availability of nutrients. Such responses alter the growth habit and form of the plant adapting it to its particular environment. We study the molecular mechanisms that underlie these responses and that enable plants to alter their developmental programmes in response to environmental signals. Our studies employ molecular-genetic, biochemical and cell biology based approaches in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate several environmental responses. Increasingly, we are also interested in comparative approaches that determine whether the mechanisms discovered in Arabidopsis are also important in other plant species.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- GlobE - improvement of the East African cooking banana with regard to biotic stress resistance and flowering time by transgenic applications and somatic hybridization
- MAIZE-TF - Functional genomics of transcription factors in maize seed development, project 2
- Planning PLANT-KBBE Alliance: 'Transcriptional networks and their evolution in the Brassicaceae (Transnet)' (A sub-projects)
- Predicting and fine-tuning seasonal responses of apples and peaches for improving orchard yields and climate change resilience
Contact
for Plant Breeding Research - Plant Developmental Biology
(MPIZ)
Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10
50829 Köln
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)221 5062-206
Fax: +49 (0)221 5062-207
Email: coupland(@)mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
