Healthy growth of wheat, maize and other crops is not possible without the plant's own hormones. Professor Ulrich Hammes is investigating the proteins that help the hormones reach their sites of action.

Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells. Plant researchers from Würzburg report this in ‘Current Biology’.

Using optogenetics, Würzburg researchers have detected a new acid sensor in plant cells that is addressing a cell-internal calcium store, as they report in the journal "Science".

Plants in which an ion channel of the vacuole is hyperactive are extremely stressed and grow poorly. But the broad bean is an exception, as Würzburg researchers have discovered.

A unique experiment tracks the evolution of plants in response to climate change - and defines the limits of adaptability. Researchers from the University of Würzburg are also involved.

Promoting diversity in commercial forests on the basis of ecological theories: This is the aim of a research group that has now been approved for further funding by the DFG. The group is headed by JMU forest ecologist Jörg Müller.

Rising temperatures are threatening dung beetle populations in the Amazon. The example shows a trend that could bring many insect species there to their heat threshold. Researchers from Würzburg and Bremen conducted the study.

Amazon mollies manage to maintain a healthy genome even without sexual reproduction. A new study, in which a team from the University of Würzburg was involved, shows which mechanisms are responsible for this.