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A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by researchers at GMI – the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh and the…

GMI recognizes the recipients of fellowships, grants and awards among its PhD candidates and postdocs! The first edition of the “GMI Fellows” series portrays the fellowship holders in 2021 from the Dagdas Lab.

Mythological nymphs reincarnate as a group of corn smut proteins to launch a battle on maize immunity. One of these proteins appears to stand out among its sister Pleiades, much like its namesake character in Greek mythology. The research carried out at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of…

Professor Liam Dolan, Senior Group Leader at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was appointed Her Majesty The Queen’s Trustee to the Board of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.

The first plant embryo gene expression atlas at the single cell level was developed by a team of researchers at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The work, published in the journal Development, is a milestone on the way to…

Gene-regulatory mechanisms at an early embryonic stage govern the flowering behavior of Arabidopsis later in development. The work of researchers at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – and the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United…

An ingenious mechanism by which Arabidopsis safeguards the integrity of its genome is uncovered by researchers at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The paper is published in the journal Nature Cell Biology.

Two complementary approaches unveil a co-evolutionary mechanism between bacteria and plants and also explain complex immune response patterns observed in the wild. Together the papers change the way scientists have been thinking about the relationship of a bacterial antigenic component with…

The Vienna Covid-19 Detection Initiative (VCDI) is a collaborative, inter-institutional effort to combat the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.