The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben is a large and internationally renowned plant research centre working on problems in modern biology by focussing on cultivated plants. Our basic, application oriented and interdisciplinary research seeks to collect new knowledge and to find new technologies aiming at the extensive use of plant genetic resources for optimised nutrient production and environmentally friendly agriculture. With the central ex situ gene bank, IPK possesses a unique collection of plant genetic resources from 3,212 botanic species of 776 different genera. Our stock currently totals approximately 151,002 specimens. more >>
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Flowering after more than 30,000 years 22/02/2012 Russian plant scientists described the propagation of a plant using germplasm aged older than 30,000 years in a PNAS publication.
Suddeutsche Zeitung talked to Prof. Andreas Graner. more >
Saatguterhaltung und Nutzbarmachung von Kulturpflanzen und heimischen Wildarten 8 & 9 May 2012
Arbeitstagung der Ag Saatgut- und Sortenwesen
University of Osnabruck, - more > (German language only)
