Plant Plasticity Research
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Projects
The researchers at the VILLUM Research Center for Plant Plasticity are investigating the possible and diverse roles of cyanogenic glucosides with regard to plant plasticity as manifested at multiple levels. Each of these levels are represented by a research subproject. Read more about these projects by clicking below:
Plasticity in Genomes & Evolution
Supramolecular Plasticity
Plasticity in Plant Development
Plasticity in Abiotic Environment
Enzyme Plasticity
Metabolic Plasticity
Plasticity in the Biotic Environment
Plant Plasticity for Biotechnology
What is Plant Plasticity?
How do plants respond to threats? Obviously, plants are unable to run away let alone move when a herbivore approaches, or it's environment is stricken by drought. So how do plants cope? They have a different kind of invisible flexibility, happening in the biochemistry of their cells. Through evolution plants have acquired this special flexibility, which allow them to form an unparalleled diversity of structurally complex bioactive molecules with specialized roles. In a plethora of ways, these molecules help the plant adapt, cope, and assimilate to changes in their environment. This particular flexibility is called plant plasticity and it is the field of study for this research center. Read more about plant plasticity here.
Head of Center
Birger Lindberg Møller
blm@plen.ku.dk
+45 3533 3352