Meet the Value Plant team – Plant-Based Valuables and Optimized Productivity of Crop Plants

WP 1 – Plant-Based Materials

WP1-1

Increased Cellulose Formation in Poplar by Modulating Membrane Trafficking

Ingo Heilmann (PI), Vera Wagner (Postdoc), Irene Stenzel (Postdoc)

WP1-2

Bioactive Plant Compounds from Olive Leaves as Potential Pharmaceuticals

Wim Wätjen (PI), Lena Lodygowska (PhD student)

WP1-3

New Molecular Targets for Optimizing Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Formation in Opium Poppy

Mareike Heilmann (PI), Johanna Uhlenberg (Postdoc), Marie Lebescond (Postdoc)

WP1-4

MAGIC-Pangenome

Establishing a pangenome of the eight donors of the MAGIC wheat population WM-800 to select genes controlling nitrogen use efficiency and baking quality for wheat breeding

Klaus Pillen (PI), Thomas Schmutzer (PI), Marvin Behnke (PhD student), Anne-Kathrin Pfrieme (PI)

WP1-5

Using “plant tears” as a source of recombinant proteins

WP1-6

Optimizing plant productivity through targeted protein storage in plastids

Bationa Bennewitz (PI), Ming Zhou (Postdoc)

WP 2 – Increasing the Resilience of Cultivated Cereals

WP2-1

Drought Stress Epigenome of Cereals (TEPI)

Klaus Humbeck (PI), Nataliia Svietlova (Postdoc)

WP2-2

NITROG(RE)EN

Establishment of Nitrogen-Fixing Associations to Optimize Productivity with Reduced Resource Use in Cereals

Edgar Peiter (PI), Farheen Saifi (Postdoc)

WP2-3

Optimization of Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Maize Against Pests

Jörg Degenhardt (PI), Janik Telleria Marloth (Postdoc)

WP2-4

Investigation and Optimization of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility Lines of Barley

Etienne Meyer (PI), Kristina Kühn (PI), Sarlita Dwiani (Postdoc)

WP 3 – Increasing the Resilience of Rapeseed Varieties

WP3-1

The Function of Alternative Splicing in Stress Adaptation in Brassica rapa Varieties

Sascha Laubinger (PI), Hui Sheng (Postdoc)

WP3-2

From Model Plant to Crop: ELF3 as a Potential Tool for Acclimatizing Crops to High Temperatures

Carolin Delker (PI), Marcel Quint (PI), Valeria Maricel Santoro (Postdoc)

WP3-3

Optimizing Starch Biosynthesis in Dicotyledonous Plants

Björn Junker (PI), Manish Raorane (PI), Stephanie Arrivault (Postdoc), David Klemm (PhD student)

WP3-4

Combating Virus-Induced Bee Declines Using New Methods with RNA Drugs

Sven-Erik Behrens (PI), Robert Paxton (PI), Tamara Meckelburg (PhD student)

MLU BIOZENTRUM

Plant Transformation and Genome Editing (Z1)

Sophia Gerasimova (PI), Pratibha Kumari (Postdoc), Sara Wambrauw (Technician)

Protein Production (Z2)

Michael Zahn (PI), Robin Schick (Postdoc)

Microscopy (Z3)