Infrastructures and facilities at Helmholtz-Zentrum Munich, HMGU

The Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology (BIOP) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) explores natural defense mechanisms, growth and fitness of plants, as well as the efficient use of resources in response to environmental cues. Focus is placed on the molecular mechanisms that allow plants to respond and adapt to biotic as well as abiotic factors. The associated Research Unit of Environmental Simulation, EUS, acts as a research platform for controlled environment simulations in exposure chambers, solar simulators, research greenhouse within the institute and in external collaborations. EUS’s scientific focus is on the functional identity and role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by plants, especially in plant defense and stress response.

Luftaufnahme vom Helmholtz Zentrum München in Neuherberg
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BIOP is also a partner and offers its facilities in the European Plant Phenotyping Network (EPPN). Within the DPPN network, novel and medium- to high-throughput phenotyping facilities will be established with focus on plant pathogen interaction. Besides growth and developmental phenotypes, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and intracellular fluorescent markers for plant-pathogen interactions will be analyzed in high resolution.

For further information and Access please contact the following persons:

Uta von Rad, Dr. v.rad@helmholtz-muenchen.de or

Stephan Dräxl, Dr. stephan.draexl@helmholtz-muenchen.de

The different infrastructure equipment is catagorized into following groups:

Technologie Plattform Patho

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	Plant Volatiles
	more details
Scope	Single Plant / Array
Location of the facility	Growth chamber / stationary
Screening object	Single plants
Plant size/Species	Up to 70 cm in height / diverse
Trait and parameters	Profiles of emissions of plant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and photosynthesis
Method	Collection (Air samplingsystem) and analysis (PTR-ToF-MS) of plant emissions
Capacity/Throughput	48 air sampling cuvettes in parallel / day
Timeline	coming soon

 

	High-throughput Confocal microscopy	Laser scanning confocal microscope
	more details	-detailed information will be available soon-
Scope	Organ	Organ
Location of the facility	stationary
Screening object	Single plants	Single plants
Plant size/Species	Seedlings (up to 2 weeks)/small plants	Small test plants and seedlings
Trait and parameters	Automated phenotyping of fluorescently labelled plants in 96-well format	Detailed analysis of intracellular or tissue-specific signaling transport routes
Method	Fluorescence Microscopy
Capacity/Throughput	High throughput	Single samples
Timeline	in preparation	in preparation