Biogeochemistry and biodiversity of agro- and forest ecosystems

Ecosystem Functioning and Global Change

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Chemical and evolutionary ecology of plant - insect interactions

Systematic Botany

Plants interact with a vast array of insects in antagonistic and mutualistic associations. Among the various channels th...

How genomic changes promote adaptation and speciation in Arabidopsis relatives and in tropical trees

Evolutionary Functional Genomics / Systems Biology

Darwin proposed the first conclusive theory to explain biodiversity with two principles: adaptation by natural selection...

Microbial functions in soil nutrient dynamics

Plant Nutrition

A good understanding of biological cycling of P in terrestrial ecosystems is important in view of both decreasing mineab...

Molecular aspects of pathogenesis in plants

Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions

We are interested in the molecular determinants of fungal pathogenesis and their possible interactions with eleme

Molecular aspects of symbiosis and pathogenesis in plants

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Plants interact with microbes (bacteria and fungi), in both friendly and hostile ways – this is the essence of plant ...

Radiation of the Cape flora

Systematic Botany

The species diversity in Angiosperms is not evenly distributed around the globe, nor among different phylogenetic lineag...

The cereal genomes: hidden treasures for evolutionary genomics and agronomy

Plant Molecular Biology

We are studying the genomes of the grass species wheat, barley and rice to analyze genome evolution in cereals. Plant ge...

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On this portal you find information on plant science research at Swiss universities. Over 80 scientists present their field of research in individual research portfolios, eight of them are shown on the left. All research portfolios can be found here.

 

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23.08.2010

Genetically modified wheat has been harvested Last week, the mature wheat plants were harvested in the experimental field in Reckenholz. Thanks to favourable weather...

21.07.2010

FP7 Calls 2011 are published! More information on the call: FP7-KBBE-2011-5