Huanhuan Tai met former PhD student Yanxiang Zhang during a visit in Beijing.

Nina Opitz has received her PhD certificate from the dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Prof. Dr. P. Stehle.

The Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science put new high-tech greenhouse into operation.

Baldauf et al. highlight transcriptomic patterns underlying heterosis manifestation in primary roots of maize in an evolutionary context. Notably, nonsyntenic genes were significantly overrepresented among differential, nonadditive and allelic expression patterns in the reciprocal hybrids of the parental inbred lines B73 and Mo17.

On April 10th 2016 lab members participated in the Deutsche Post Marathon Bonn.

"Plant roots: new challenges in a changing world" features new developments in the area of root functional and genetic research that offer strategies for tackling the global challenges set by increasing population and climate change.