The Houska Prize, awarded annually by the B&C Foundation, is Austria's largest private award for applied research. Together with 4 other projects in the higher education category, Michael was nominated for his development of the sRNA Spike-Ins. The…

The fellowship will fund her PhD studies with Claude Becker, where she seeks to unravel the molecular and genetic mechanisms of the innate weed suppression capacity of rice.

The new work from an international team led by Frédéric Berger and his PhD Student Sean Montgomery at the Gregor Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and by Chang Liu at the ZMBP at the University of Tuebingen was published today in…

A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered in new research.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short regulatory molecules that repress mRNAs, regulating development in both plants and animals. Students from the Nodine lab used high-throughput sequencing methods to profile miRNAs and their target mRNAs from developing…

A public statement by numerous European institutes calls for the amendment of the EU's almost 20-year-old GMO legislation

Plants with deep, robust roots can store more carbon underground for longer periods of time, reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, the genetic and molecular mechanisms that regulate remain largely unknown. The lab of Wolfgang Busch,…

An international research team has revealed a novel mechanism for the perception of endogenous peptides by a plant receptor. The discovery of this activation mechanism sets a new paradigm for how plants react to internal and external cues.

Youssef received the award on Monday evening together with Corinna Dawid from the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan for their recently published work describing how the plant immune system is able to recognize bacterial small fatty acids and…