A team at the Department of Plant Systematics at the University of Bayreuth has recently identified a new plant species of the genus Leichhardtia on New Caledonia and presented it in the journal "Phytotaxa". This discovery was triggered by a television report from a local TV station on New Caledonia about a research trip to the hard-to-access island of Yandé northwest of the main island of New Caledonia.
In the northwest of the Republic of Chad, in a remote desert region of the Tibesti Mountains, there are irrigated gardens divided into floors for the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, herbs and dates. Dr. habil. Tilman Musch, a social anthropologist at the University of Bayreuth, established these Sahara gardens in close cooperation with local residents. He reports on the goals, challenges and successes of the project, which has been funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation since 2021 and follows on from earlier traditions of oasis horticulture in the Sahara, in the journal "Berichte über Landwirtschaft" published by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Around 40 Nobel Laureates and close to 600 Young Scientists from 90 countries in Lindau Programme focusing on the meeting’s discipline Physiology/Medicine Public livestream covering selected programme sessions New member of the Foundation’s Honorary Senate: Marius Müller-Westernhagen #LINO23 highlights on our social media wall
Most plants worldwide live in symbiosis with fungi. Often there is an exchange of nutrients from which both partners benefit. In numerous other cases, however, the plants feed unilaterally at the expense of the fungi. International research groups led by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gebauer at the University of Bayreuth have now presented a groundbreaking method in the journal "New Phytologist" that makes it possible for the first time to apply isotope analyses to all forms of symbiosis between plants and fungi without restrictions. In principle, it will be possible in the future to determine for each plant which and how many nutrients it obtains from fungal partners.
A new study by Bayreuth scientists Dr. Franz-Sebastian Krah and Prof. Dr. Claus Bässler has shown that temperature has a significant influence on the timing and duration of fungal fruiting in key areas of the world. The research results were published in the journal "Ecology Letters" and shed new light on the global impact of climate change on occurrences of fungi in nature.
Regensburg, 20 June 2023 - The prestigious Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Medal was awarded this year to LIT scientist Prof. Dr. Hinrich Abken in recognition of his lifetime achievements.
Dr. Zoltan Nagy has been accepted into the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The biologist will receive over 1.7 million euros in funding for a period of six years to establish a research group at the Institute of Experimental Biomedicine, University Hospital Würzburg to investigate the maturation process of blood-forming cells known as megakaryocytes.
For several years, ecological research has argued that climate often has no determining influence on the distribution of forests and savannas in tropical regions. However, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Steven Higgins at the University of Bayreuth has now succeeded in proving that it depends mostly on climatic factors whether regions in Africa are covered by forest or savanna. The study, published in "Science", thus confirms the dominant role of climate in the formation of global vegetation patterns.
How do our genes determine the immune response to pathogens? This depends on small differences in the genome. The situation is complex, as a new study shows.
Why is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus able to spread so efficiently? Various hypotheses are still circulating in the scientific community. A group of researchers from Würzburg has now found groundbreaking answers.
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