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Our institute is part of a group consisting of 7 teams in 3 locations

Team Phloem development: Dr. Seomun Kwon

Our goal is to understand how the phloem develops and to develop strategies to improve plant fitness by reengineering amino acid metabolism and sugar loading routes in the phloem.

Team Signaling: Dr. Michael Wudick

We are interested to understand how a local stimulus (e.g., leaf wounding) induces a propagating systemic signal (e.g., electrical, chemical or hydraulic) that can trigger responses in distal plant parts.

Team Rice: Dr. Eliza Loo

We are developing strategies to fight against devastating rice diseases. Therefore, we provide disease-resistant rice varieties to minimize global yield losses.

Team ERC SYMPORE: Dr. Moritz Schladt

Plasmodesmata are cell-cell channels unique to plants for nutrient transport and communication. We want to unravel their structure, function and evolution using proteomics, molecular and structural biology.

Wolf B. Frommer
Principal Investigator +49 211 81-12779
Email: frommew @ hhu.de

Hiroko Saito
Secretary +49 211 81-14826
Email: saitoh @ hhu.de Building: 26.14
Floor/room: 00.112

Sabine Ahrens
Secretary +49 211 81-11575
Email: sabine.ahrens @ hhu.de Building: 26.14
Floor/room: 00.12

Independent project: Root microbiota

The project aims to better understand how root microbes communicate with each other, and with the host (plant root) to establish local microbial niches.