Amorphophallus titanum

Our Amophophallus titanum plant was flowering. A webcam was installed to to take live photos every minute. On a time lapse video you can see the flower open more »

May 19, 2017

Joint forces on carcasses

Cooperation of burying beetles and their microbiota (Nature Communications, May 2017) more »

April 28, 2017

Symbiotic bacteria: from hitchhiker to beetle bodyguard

Bacterial symbionts transition between plant pathogenicity and insect defensive mutualism (Nature Communications, April 2017) more »

April 20, 2017

Bergamotene ̶ alluring and lethal for Manduca sexta

The volatile compound bergamotene increases the moths’ pollination success and protects tobacco leaves against their voracious offspring (Current Biology, April 2017) more »

News

June 12, 2017
Bill S. Hansson elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

May 23, 2017
Newsletter PULS/CE, Issue 29, is now online.

Events

September 21-22, 2017

Seminars

July 06, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Institute Seminar

Georg Petschenka: Do predators spur the coevolutionary arms race between insects and plants?

July 10, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Institute Seminar

Stephan C. Schuster: to be announced

Recent publications

Durrant: Evidence of an evolutionary hourglass pattern in herbivory-induced transcriptomic responses. New Phytologist

Jimenez-Aleman: Synthesis of omega-hydroxylated jasmonates via olefin metathesis. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, C: Journal of Biosciences

Machado: Herbivory-induced jasmonates constrain plant sugar accumulation and growth by antagonizing gibberellin signaling and not by promoting secondary metabolite production. New Phytologist