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The state awards were presented as part of the ceremonial events surrounding the start of the academic year at the University of Bonn

From left to right: Alexandra Becher, Brenda Mariana Huerta García, Prof. Dr. Franz Lebsanft, Anja Larissa Brüll, Prof. Dr. Matthias Becher, Kathrin Zander, ...

Arabidopsis thaliana

a plant in which the researchers detected the new mechanism.

Plants convert their phosphate(Pi) status into InsP8 (signaling molecule controlling phosphate acquisition)

ITPK1 plays a key role in this process by generating or removing the precursor of InsP8 according to phosphate-dependent changes in ATP.

Dr. Gwendolyn K. Kirschner

with a barley plant.

Seven-day-old barley roots of mutant egt2

It grows strictly downwards (hypergravitropic).

For comparison, the root without the egt2 mutation

It grows outwards, opening up a larger volume of soil in search for nutrients.