Alipour, M.; Haghighi, M.; Rahimmalek, M.; Reichelt, M.; Martinelli, L.; Groten, K.; Mithöfer, A.: Integrated metabolomics, transcriptomic, and phytohormonal analyses to study the effects of water stress and foliar abscisic acid application in Thymus species using LC-MS/MS. Frontiers in Plant Science 16, 1557446 (2025)
Baraniecka, P.; Seibt, W.; Groten, K.; Kessler, D.; McGale, E.; Gase, K.; Baldwin, I. T.; Pannell, J. R.: Prezygotic mate selection is only partially correlated with the expression of NaS-like RNases and affects offspring phenotypes. New Phytologist 242 (6), pp. 2832 - 2844 (2024)
Groten, K.; Yon, F.; Baldwin, I. T.: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence the intraspecific competitive ability of plants under field and glasshouse conditions. Planta 258, 60 (2023)
Bennett, A. E.; Groten, K.: The costs and benefits of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal interactions. Annual Review of Plant Biology 73, pp. 18.1 - 18.24 (2022)
Tseng, Y.-H.; Rouina, H.; Groten, K.; Rajani, P.; Furch, A. C. U.; Reichelt, M.; Baldwin, I. T.; Nataraja, K. N.; Shaanker, R. U.; Oelmüller, R.: An endophytic Trichoderma strain promotes growth of its hosts and defends against pathogen attack. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 573670 (2020)
Santhanam, R.; Menezes, R. C.; Grabe, V.; Li, D.; Baldwin, I. T.; Groten, K.: A suite of complementary biocontrol traits allows a native consortium of root‐associated bacteria to protect their host plant from a fungal sudden‐wilt disease. Molecular Ecology 28 (5), pp. 1154 - 1169 (2019)
Song, Y.; Wang, M.; Zeng, R.; Groten, K.; Baldwin, I. T.: Priming and filtering of antiherbivore defences among Nicotiana attenuata plants connected by mycorrhizal networks. Plant, Cell and Environment 42 (11), pp. 2945 - 2961 (2019)
Pandey, P.; Wang, M.; Baldwin, I. T.; Pandey, S. P.; Groten, K.: Complex regulation of microRNAs in roots of competitively-grown isogenic Nicotiana attenuata plants with different capacities to interact with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. BMC Genomics 19, 937 (2018)
Wang, M.; Wilde, J.; Baldwin, I. T.; Groten, K.: Nicotiana attenuata's capacity to interact with arbuscular mycorrhiza alters its competitive ability and elicits major changes in the leaf transcriptome. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 60 (3), pp. 242 - 261 (2018)
Wang, M.; Schoettner, M.; Xu, S.; Paetz, C.; Wilde, J.; Baldwin, I. T.; Groten, K.: Catechol, a major component of smoke, influences primary root growth and root hair elongation through reactive oxygen species-mediated redox signaling. New Phytologist 213 (4), pp. 1755 - 1770 (2017)
Groten, K.; Nawaz, A.; Nguyen, N. T. H.; Santhanam, R.; Baldwin, I. T.: Silencing a key gene of the common symbiosis pathway in Nicotiana attenuata specifically impairs arbuscular mycorrhizal infection without influencing the root-associated microbiome or plant growth. Plant, Cell and Environment 38 (11), pp. 2398 - 2416 (2015)
Santhanam, R.; Baldwin, I. T.; Groten, K.: In wild tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata, variation among bacterial communities of isogenic plants is mainly shaped by the local soil microbiota independently of the plants' capacity to produce jasmonic acid. Communicative & integrative biology 8 (2), e1017160 (2015)
Santhanam, R.; Groten, K.; Meldau, D. G.; Baldwin, I. T.: Analysis of plant-bacteria interactions in their native habitat: bacterial communities associated with wild tobacco are independent of endogenous jasmonic acid levels and developmental stages. PLoS One 9 (4), e94710 (2014)
Ullmann-Zeunert, L.; Stanton, M.; Wielsch, N.; Bartram, S.; Hummert, C.; Svatoš, A.; Baldwin, I. T.; Groten, K.: Quantification of growth-defense trade-offs in a common currency: nitrogen required for phenolamide biosynthesis is not derived from ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase turnover. The Plant Journal 75 (3), pp. 417 - 429 (2013)
The natural product chemist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.
As the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, we are fully committed to the principle of scientific freedom as enshrined in Article 5 of the German Basic Law and recognized worldwide as a fundamental human right.
The award recognizes her outstanding research in the chemistry and biochemistry of plant natural products, with particular emphasis on the detailed elucidation of metabolic pathways and the engineering of novel pathways and compounds for biomedical applications.
The doctoral researcher from the Department of Insect Symbiosis gave an excellent talk about the temporal and spatial dynamics of symbiont lineages in a grain pest beetle.
At the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE), currently taking place in Prague, Jonathan Gershenzon, Managing Director of our Institute and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded the Society's Silver Medal.
Jonathan Gershenzon, Head of the Department of Biochemistry, has been elected to membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). This prestigious honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to the life sciences.
After the IMPRS symposium on April 17-18, 2024, Marion Lemoine, Ronja Krüsemer, Johannes Körnig and Iulia Barutia received the presentation awards for the best talks and posters.
Wir laden am 25. April 2024 wieder alle interessierten Schülerinnen und Schüler ab der 8. Klasse ein, am Forsche Schüler Tag einen Blick in unsere Forschungslabore zu werfen und selbst Wissenschaft „auszuprobieren“.