Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Plant genetics; 4 main areas of research:
Department of Plant Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Coupland)
Department of Molecular Plant Genetics (Prof. Dr. Saedler)
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions (Prof. Dr. Schulze-Lefert)
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (Prof. Dr. Koornneef)

The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research was founded in 1927 as initiated by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1948 it became part of the Max Planck Society, which is the successor of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

George Coupland (Managing Director)

Nikolaus Amrhein
Klaus Apel
Philip Benfey
Ton Bisseling
Xing-Wang Deng
Andreas Graner
Chris Lamb
Susan Wessler
Dani Zamir

Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10
50829 Cologne
Germany
Phone: +49-221-5062-0
Fax: +49-221-5062-513