This web­site serves as a plat­form for net­work­ing and knowl­edge exchange, pro­vid­ing resources and insights into the lat­est devel­op­ments in plant in vit­ro technologies.

The web­site is host­ed by Hum­boldt-Uni­ver­sität zu Berlin, and curat­ed by our group Plant Evo­lu­tion and Bio­di­ver­si­ty belong­ing to the Insti­tute of Biology.

Our research group spe­cial­izes in in vit­ro somat­ic embryo­ge­n­e­sis, with a pri­ma­ry focus on conifer species. We are experts work­ing with tis­sue cul­ture of Larch, Dou­glas fir and fir. Fur­ther­more, we focus on cry­op­reser­va­tion and long-term stor­age of embryo­genic cul­tures impor­tant for our col­lab­o­rat­ing part­ners in forestry and tree nurs­eries. We are inter­est­ed in iden­ti­fy­ing genes play­ing an impor­tant role in somat­ic embryo­ge­n­e­sis ini­ti­a­tion, the cre­ation of supe­ri­or geno­types regard­ing envi­ron­men­tal stres­sors like drought, as well as gain­ing insight into ear­ly plant devel­op­ment. Our lab is locat­ed at the beau­ti­ful Späth-Arbore­tum Berlin.

As found­ing mem­bers of the PInK-net, we are com­mit­ted to advanc­ing research, fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, and shar­ing knowl­edge with­in the Ger­man sci­en­tif­ic in vit­ro plant biotech­nol­o­gy community.

Fur­ther­more, we are part of the Euro­pean Net­work for Inno­v­a­tive Woody Plant Cloning Copy­Tree (COST action CA21157).