Bio-manufacturing centre for novel foods and biomedicine
The German federal government and the state of Baden-Württemberg are providing around €3 million in funding to support the establishment of a biofabrication centre at Fraunhofer IGB in Stuttgart.
High-speed plant research
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Philipps University of Marburg have developed an automated platform that enables high-throughput research into genetic changes in chloroplasts for the first time.
Oat genome decoded
A research team involving the Technical University of Munich has decoded the genomes of 33 different oat varieties, thereby recording the entire genetic diversity of this plant.
Stress test on rye provides insight into gene combination
A new study by the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg shows how rye rearranges its genes in response to environmental stress.
Luring pests away from plants
In the EU project UPSCALE, researchers led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) are demonstrating how insects can be gently lured away from crops using push-pull technology, thereby improving yields and soil fertility.
