A working group has recently been established at Göttingen University to focus on the development of high-quality plant varieties for organic cultivation. The purpose of the Working Group "Genetic resources and organic plant breeding" is to develop breeding methods for practical application in order to circumvent problems involved with organic cultivation. more...

As per the summer semester of 2013, Göttingen University has established the first Chair for Chinese as a Foreign Language nationwide. The sinologist Dr. Henning Klöter, who until now was on the staff at the University of Mainz, has received the professorship. more...

The Göttingen State and University Library (SUB) has repatriated back to the University Library of Poznan 38 books that had belonged to Göttingen Library under the National Socialists. Between years 1941 and 1943, the books had been transferred to Göttingen by the German Reich Exchange Centre and the Emergency Foundation for German Science from areas occupied by the German Wehrmacht. more...

A single gene raises the usable caloric value of grain

An international researcher's team affiliated with the University of Göttingen has found a genetic mutation in an enzyme that naturally enhances the caloric value and starch digestibility of the cereal grain sorghum. more...

ATLAS Thesis Award for young scientist from Göttingen

Dr. Anna Henrichs, who worked for her doctorate at Göttingen University, has received the ATLAS Thesis Award from the international ATLAS collaboration at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. more...