The 5th INRES - Minisymposium (INRES Day) will take place on August 24 on the Campus Poppelsdorf in the lecture hall center "CP1-HSZ", Endenicher Allee 19C, 53115 Bonn, Germany.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Marcel gave an update on his work on how ethylene response factors connect lateral root development and mycorrhizal symbiosis in maize.