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An innovative institute steeped in tradition

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 more than 3,000 botanic species of about 800 different genera. Our stock currently totals approximately 147,000 specimens.  more >>

Biotech Campus Gatersleben

News
24th - 27th April 2010, Bologna, Italy
2nd International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
Call for Papers, deadline 15th February
Pressemitteilung
Startschuss: Sachsen-Anhalts Schülerlabore vernetzen sich.

Events
24 th March 2010
Gatersleben Lecture
Prof. Dr. Michael D. McMullen, University of Missouri, Division of Plant Scienes, Columbia, USA
29th April 2010
Gatersleben Lecture
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Yano (QTL Genomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan)
5th June 2010
Open Day at Satellite Collections North (Malchow/Poel)
"Das Jahr 2010 - Im Zeichen der biologischen Vielfalt" (2010 - The year of biological diversity)
12th June 2010
Open Day and Multicultural Event
16th-17th September 2010
3. Gaterslebener Gepräch zum Thema