Research subject Plant Physiology

AdaptiveTarget: Accessing haplotype variation at complex loci with optimized targeting and adaptive sampling

The research is performed in the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea.

How does small gravitational changes, or microgravity, caused by the moon, affect growth and reproduction in bladderwrack? Can macroalgae adapt to the space environment and be used for cultivation in the future?

Global climate change mitigation through the preservation of natural biological carbon sinks is of the highest importance to face the threats to our planet but poses ample challenges for society, governments and policy makers around the world.

identification of hotspot environments for coastal blue carbon sequestration and guidance for sustainable management of the Baltic coastal landscapes under global change (CLIM-SCAPE)

The "Cell differentiation and coordination in tissues" group is establishing and optimizing novel methods to directly assess changes in amount and chemical composition of plant biomass from biopsies with sub µm resolution.

The smallest aquatic plants on earth, phytoplankton, are responsible for the vast majority of photosynthesis.

Harnessing evolutionary transitions, machine learning, and genomics to decode pollen evolution and unravel sexual selection mechanisms shared across kingdoms

Meringosphaera are a widespread genus of marine planktonic unicellular eukaryotes that are globally distributed, yet poorly characterized.

The experiments are performed in an open ocean symbiotic cyanobacterium by expression in heterologous systems.

N2-fixing planktonic symbioses: Biogeochemically significant models to study molecular regulation & genomic innovation

Aquatic Microbiome Research Initiative

Supergenes are clusters of genes that can maintain favorable trait combinations because they are inherited as a unit. Studying supergenes allows us to address fundamental questions on the origin and evolution of multi-trait adaptations and is therefore of broad significance.

The "Cell differentiation and coordination in tissues" group investigates the formation and organization of the plant carbon biomass that is accumulated in plant cell walls.

There is currently a pressing need to adapt crops to future climates by breeding drought- and heat-resilient varieties. Wild crop relatives harbor untapped genetic variation for breeding but remain underutilized due to the lack of efficient methods to identify beneficial variants in collections.