Department of Plant Biology
SLU Plant Protection Network kick-off
cajsa.lithell@slu.se Come, meet and connect with others at SLU working within plant protection or plant health. Get to know and help shaping our new SLU Plant Protection Network, and find out what
Biotechnology for Sustainability – Final report from Mistra Biotech 2012-2020
Mistra Biotech is a Swedish research programme that has been working for eight years to advance the use of modern biotechnology for a more sustainable agriculture. We have done this on a broad basis,
Jens Sundström, biotechnology
Jens Sundström is an expert on biotechnology with focus on gene technology. I can contribute to reinforce SLU's active and leading position in developing a sustainable agriculture and forestry. My
Large Wallenberg grant to Claudia Köhler for research on communication signals in plants
Professor Claudia Köhler of SLU has been awarded SEK 28 million by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for research on small RNA molecules (sRNA). In plants, mobile sRNAs serve as signalling
Claudia Köhler chosen to be a Wallenberg Scholar
The Wallenberg Foundation has chosen 22 excellent researchers to be Wallenberg Scholars, which means that they receive SEK 18 million each for free research during five years. One of them is
ChMelnyk
Charles Melnyk, a plant biology researcher at SLU, has been awarded one of the most prestigious research grants in Europe, a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC). During the next
How bacteria hijack the plant’s self-eating system to spread infection
A major challenge in plant breeding is the improvement of resistance to a multitude of pathogens that threaten crop productivity. Successful pathogens have evolved a large repertoire of molecular
Barrier to plant breeders closer to a solution
A major obstacle for plant breeders around the world is that the endosperm does not develop normally in seeds from crosses of plants that differ in chromosome number. Claudia Köhler’s lab at SLU has
The genetics behind starch and dietary fibre storage in barley seeds is revealed
How much of photosynthetic products that are channelled into starch and fructan (a type of dietary fibre) in a barley seed is controlled by a single gene. An international research team, with its
Claudia Köhler elected member of EMBO
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected the new members of the year. Claudia Köhler, professor at SLU's Department of Plant Biology in Uppsala, is one of the European
Award to Chuanxin Sun from society for plant physiology
SLU researcher Chuanxin Sun has recently received the "Physiologia Plantarum Award", by the Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology (Societas Physiologiae Plantarum Scandinavica). Chuanxin Sun's