Abteilung Biochemie der Pflanze des Albrecht-von-Haller-Instituts
Welcome
The Department for Plant Biochemistry of the Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Goettingen is located in the Ernst-Caspari-Building. The department consists of two research groups. Actually about 35 people are working on 6 different projects.
News
We welcome Moritz Klein to the department and wish him good luck with his master thesis!
Most recent publications
König, S., J. Gömann, A. Zienkiewicz, K. Zienkiewicz, D. Meldau, C. Herrfurth, and I. Feussner: Sphingolipid-induced programmed cell death is a salicylic acid and EDS1-dependent phenotype in Arabidopsis fatty acid hydroxylase (fah1, fah2) and ceramide synthase (loh2) triple mutants. Plant Cell Physiol. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcab174 (2021).
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Vollheyde, K., E. Hornung, C. Herrfurth, T. Ischebeck, and I. Feussner: Plastidial wax ester biosynthesis as a tool to synthesize shorter and more saturated wax esters. Biotechnol. Biofuels doi:10.1186/s13068-021-02062-1 (2021).
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Gömann, J., C. Herrfurth, K. Zienkiewicz, T.M. Haslam, and I. Feussner: Sphingolipid Δ4-desaturation is an important metabolic step for glycosylceramide formation in Physcomitrium patens. J. Exp. Bot., doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab1238 (2021).
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