Tonni Grube Andersen on stage at PADiBa2024, presenting a talk titled "How do plants and bacteria form beneficial associations for N-fixation?"

Leonie Kraska on stage at PADiBa2024, presenting a talk titled "MYB68 regulates suberin patterning and radially distinct endodermal differentiation".

Swati Mahiwal on stage at PADiBa2024, presenting a talk titled "Endodermal suberization and passage cell occurrence in Lotus japonicus".

Pascal Krohn on stage at PADiBa2024, presenting a talk titled "Cope and communicate - Spatial interplay between plant specialized metabolites, physical (periderm) barriers and the A. thaliana root microbiome".

The Tonni Grube-Group from #MPIPZ is pretty well represented at #padiba2024. (Reportedly) amazing talks from Tonni, Leonie Kraska, Swati Mahiwal & Pascal Krohn. Additionally, a poster from Ahmet Tas on display 👌

#PlantScience #Suberin

Photos from @tonnigrube.bsky.social & @robertasu.bsky.social

Sebastian Soyk standing in front of the screen in the MPIPZ lecture hall. The logo of the MPG can be seen to the left of the screen. On the screen is a phylogenetic tree of genes controlling tomato meristem activity, images of meristems, and example images of tomato fruit bushels that are produced by the meristems. The title of the slide is "dissecting & engineering the genetics of domestication for crop improvement".

We had @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social from Lausanne here at the #MPIPZ Cologne. A very interesting talk of #tomato (re-)domestication and optimization using CRISPR and other #PlantNGTs. #PlantScience 🍅

Tonni Grube Andersen and Joop Vermeer in front of the screen at the MPIPZ in Cologne. The title of the talk is "Luctor et emergo: understanding conserved developmental trajectories accommodating lateral root organogenesis".

Today we have @joopvermeer.bsky.social here at the #MPIPZ in Cologne.
#Mechanobiology and #Microscopy meet #PlantDevelopment and #PlantEvolution. #RootBiology with amazing live-imaging from #Arabidopsis , #Brachypodium and #Cardamine. 👌
Fantastic work! #PlantScience

Title page of the 1983 The EMBO Journal paper showing the title ‘The opine synthase genes carried by Ti plasmids contain all signals necessary for expression in plants’ and authors C. Koncz, H. De Greve, D. Andre, F. Deboeck, M. Van Montagu and J. Schell.

In 1983 Csaba Koncz from the lab of Jeff Schell at the #MPIPZ in Cologne described the NOS and OCS promoters of Agrobacterium as the first plant-active promoters, but they are not active in all tissues and under strong developmental & environmental regulation, leading to high variability.

Seminar announcement on a screen at the MPIPZ. It announces René Schneider's Seminar on Wednesday, 21.02.2024, with the title being "Unraveling the protein machinery cont..." hosted by Marc Somssich

We have the great @schneiderlab.bsky.social here today for the #MPIPZ Wednesday Seminar.
Looking forward to some amazing #PlantMicroscopy #PlantCellBiology and #Mechanobiology.

"How plants build their water pipes"