Archive Planter’s Punch
Members of the CEPLAS Graduate School and Postdoc Program have been writing for the Planter's Punch since 2014. Here you can find all contributions of the popular series.
Previous contributions:
2023
2022
- Milena Malisic: A story about plants, microbes, molecules and iron
- Svenja Hermanns: A swap transaction with mutual benefit
- Laura Redzich: Attack of the sugar thieves
- Pia Saake: Friend or Foe? How can plants distinguish between beneficial and detrimental microorganisms?
- Kerstin Schulz: How to follow corn genes into the past
- Emely Silz: The dose makes the poison – why we study mineral nutrition
- Meik Thiele: Let's talk about meristems - the driving forces of plant growth
- Priyamedha Sengupta: The social network: How microbes protect plants
- Ruben Eichfeld: How interactions between fungi can condition the physiology of a host plant
- Anastasija Plett: Membrane proteins - necessary gatekeeper
- Niklas Kiel: How bacteria and plants become friends
2021
- A tale of plant roots, sugar and soil microbes
- How plants affect the social live of microorganisms
- Make the invisible visible by a molecular spy
- Life is sweeter with flowers
- The fascinating diversity of leaf shape in nature
- Family Business
- Why research on barley can improve not only our beer
- How bacteria might be able to trick the plant
- Making & breaking plant cell walls: Why should we care?
2020
- Production of starch as a theoretical model
- Covid-19 and plants from a computational perspective
- A new canvas for mapping the unknowns of plants inner workings
- Plant microbe interactions from a different perspective
- How iron-availability impacts plant-microbe intreactions in the rizhosphere
- About Rubisco, the Spluttering Motor of Photosynthesis
- Efficient workers: Understanding plant genetics to improve our lives
- Sugar transporters are are potential targets to develop broad-spectrum resistance against rice diseases
- How plant saccharides can help to save the world
2018
2017
- Where did all my donuts go?
- The interesting ways of how plants use CO2 and light to create sugar and O2: C3, C4, and CAM photosynthesis
- The importance of soil health and how microbes can contribute to improved farming systems
- Which factors are needed to shape a microbial leaf community?
- Taxonomic Identification of the Invisible
- A new paradigm for C4 engineering
- Glucosinolates: A currency for plant's defence
- Pick up weight with a balanced diet – no yield increase without minerals
- Dating the Brassicaceae specialist Thecaphora thlaspeos
- Communication between cells via peptides and receptors
- Detecting proteins with GFP-tagging - how to visualize proteins in living cells
- Understanding of Below-ground Plant and Fungus Communication
2016
- Clones to our rescue! – An introduction to vegetative propagation in plants
- Finding nutrient storage in perennial Arabis alpina
- A metabolite cocktail for belowground communication
- Forward genetics – A powerful tool to find novel genes responsible for C4 leaf anatomy
- The unifying power of stress: Bringing together mRNAs and proteins
- ABC transporters – plants actively interact with their environment
- Sweet-talk between plants and fungi
- To grow taller or not? Plants “make” different “decisions”
- Under cover of darkness
- The Art of Protein Crystallization
2015
- What can a mathematician tell you about plants?
- Two or more rows per spike and shoot branching (tillering) control yield in barley
- Bacteria – diverse applications as microbial cell factories
- The importance of microbial networks for plant health
- Photosynthetic defence
- Bud bank – a reservoir for the future
- Hunting the factors that rule C4 anatomy
- Insights into the plant immune system
- The genus Flaveria – our model to study the evolution of C4 photosynthesis
- Plant Probiota: the future of agriculture?
2014
- Understanding the root of perennials: Analyses below the surface
- Glucosinolates play an important role in plant defence mechanisms
- Improving the environmental adaption of barley to extend it’s production area
- Auxin and light shape the leaf for efficient photosynthesis
- The smut fungus Ustilago maydis
