Marcel Baer and Li Guo have received their PhD certificates at the promotion ceremony of the Faculty of Agriculture.

Congratulations to Li for receiving the faculty prize for the best thesis in plant science and the Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad for her PhD work.

Liuyang characterized the boron deficiency-induced defects and the phenylboronic acid (PBA)-induced defects in maize roots.

Marion identifies expression pattern between hybrids and their parents, in an IBM-RIL backcross population during primary root development.

Jutta examines the regulation of an extreme instance of gene expression complementation in maize, which is denoted as single-parent expression (SPE), in an IBM-RIL backcross population during primary root development.

Yan gave an update on the status of the BonnMu reverse genetics repository of maize.