The award winner Dr. Melanie Braun with Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer (r.), former ferdeal minister of the environment, and Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun (l.), speaker of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Sustainable Futures".
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Soil scientist Dr. Melanie Braun with Rector Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Hoch (l.) and Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer (center).
Soil scientist Dr. Melanie Braun and Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, who gave his name to the Klaus Töpfer Research Prize of the University of Bonn.
Mit dem Auge sind Unterschiede nur für Fachleute erkennbar. Mit Hilfe der Molekulargenetik lassen sich aber große Unterschiede nachweisen.
Only experts can spot the differences with the naked eye. However, huge differences can be identified using molecular genetics.
Prof. Dr. Dennis Lehmkuhl from the Institute of Philosophy and Prof. Dr. Annaliese Mason from the Institute of Crop Sciences and Resource Conservation at the University of Bonn.
The drier the region, the fewer seminal roots the maize varieties cultivated there had on average (black figure; the pie chart shows the proportion of varieties with up to one seminal root in yellow, with up to three seminal roots in green and with more than three seminal roots in blue).
Head of INRES - Crop Functional Genomics at the University of Bonn.