Plant Biochemistry & Physiology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor and Head, Department of Physiology & Cell Biology, Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Overall common research goals are the regulation of metabolic pathways and developmental processes in plants and their cellular expression systems aiming at the improvement of agronomically relevant traits in crops or biotechnological procedures. For this purpose, our department employs either physiological and biochemical approaches or molecular biological or cell biological approaches.

Nutrient transport, sensing and metabolism are investigated in the research group 'Molecular Plant Nutrition' (Prof Nicolaus von Wirén) with the primary goal to identify morphogenetic effects on nutrients or bottlenecks in the efficient acquisition and use of mineral elements.