The Healthy Crops team wishes you all a happy and healthy New Year!

The consortium met online this year (unfortunately only again) to share the latest scientific progress and to discuss the future planning of the project.

In the review paper, "Options for tackling pathogen resistance by genome editing in rice," Prof. Frommer's team provides insights into the general problem of world hunger and details some tools that can be used to efficiently combat pathogen resistance. Just click here to get to the abstract.

The HHU group provided insights into their scientific work and careers to female school students.

Girls' Day is an annual event to motivate girls to take up technical and scientific professions. HHU will explain the beautiful profession of a plant biochemist and how we can help to fight BLB.

The website of the Healthy Crops project has a new revised design and some new features. Convince yourselves!

A collaboration between Frank White's group and the group of Bing Yang resulted in the publication on Xa7, a gene which guards SWEET14 against exploitation by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.

The “Healthy Crops” project, headed by Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor Wolf B. Frommer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), has developed a strategy to combat “bacterial leaf blight” (BLB), one of the most devastating rice diseases in large parts of Asia and Africa. BLB has significant…

Each year, bacterial and fungal diseases in rice lead to devastating losses for Asia’s agricultural sector. Researchers working with Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in New Delhi plan to work together…