Institute for Biochemistry of Plants

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The Institute for Biochemistry of Plants (IBP) was a non-university research institute in Halle (Saale) , which as an academy institute belonged to the research community of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , which later became the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW). It was created in 1960 through the conversion of the plant biochemistry center established two years earlier in Halle into an independent institute. The construction of the institute was completed in 1964. Kurt Mothes acted as the founding director from 1958 to 1968 , who had previously been department head at the Institute for Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben until 1957 . He was followed by Klaus Schreiber until 1989 , Klaus Müntz from 1989 to 1990 and Benno Parthier from 1990 to 1991 .

The focus of the activities at the institute was the application-oriented research of plant and synthetic substances to increase yields as well as to control weeds and pests in agriculture , and the elucidation of their mechanism of action. In 1971 the IBP became part of the newly founded Research Center for Molecular Biology and Medicine of the AdW. In the summer of 1990 it had around 180 employees, making it one of the smaller bioscientific institutes in the AdW research community.

As a successor to the institute, which existed until the end of 1991, the “Institute for Plant Biochemistry” was re-established as a Blue List facility at the beginning of 1992 . It has been called the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry since the mid-1990s .

literature

  • Klaus Schreiber (Hrsg.): 20 years Institute for Biochemistry of Plants in Halle of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 1958-1978. Self-published by the institute, Halle 1978
  • Hans-Georg Wolf: Organizational fate in the German unification process. The development paths of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Series: Writings of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne. Volume 27. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35523-X , p. 15