Team Phloem-Entwicklung: Dr. Seomun Kwon 

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

Team Signaling: Dr. Michael Wudick

We want to understand how a local stimulus (e.g., leaf injury) triggers a spreading systemic signal (e.g., electrical, chemical, hydraulic) that can trigger responses in distant parts of the plant.

Team Rice: Dr. Eliza Loo

We develop strategies to combat devastating rice diseases. That is why we offer disease-resistant rice varieties to minimize global yield losses.

Team ERC SYMPORE: Dr. Moritz Schladt

Plasmodesmata are cell-to-cell channels that exist only in plants and transport nutrients and facilitate communication. We want to study their structure, function, and development using proteomics, molecular, and structural biology.

Independent project: Root microbiota

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

Team Crop yield in maize: Dr. Thomas Hartwig 

Corn is a versatile crop with growing global importance as a staple food, animal feed, and source of biofuel...

Team ITbM: Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Nakamura

Research in the Frommer-Nakamura group at ITbM focuses on three areas...