Plants have co-evolved with the atmosphere and the climate and play essential roles in the global hydrological and carbon cycles.

Grass genomes harbour a whole MADS-box gene blueprint of the ABCED model, which is the molecular basis of floral organ identity in angiosperm flowers.

The impacts of climate change on plants are hard to quantify, leading to uncertainties in predicting future gross primary productivity and carbon budgets of (agro)ecosystems.

Professor Ulrike Mathesius, Head of Division, Division of Plant Sciences

Can you think of a fast and efficient plant gene editing method to produce crops that do not succumb to a changing climate?

Rust fungi are a major cause of cereal yield losses worldwide requiring frequent fungicide applications in case crop resistance is overcome by new pathogen variants.