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:
2024
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
- 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
