Petunia Research Groups

PDG (Plant Development and Genetics)

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cell Biology, Flower Pigmentation, Plant Development

PIs: Ronald Koes and Francesca Quattrocchio

Evolution & Development of the Flower group

ENS de Lyon, France

Petunia flower and inflorescence development, evolution of floral regulatory gene networks

Group leader: Michiel Vandenbussche

Wageningen Postharvest Physiology and Quality Group

Wageningen University, Netherlands

Specialized metabolite biosynthesis and regulation, abiotic stress response

PI: Julian Verdonk

The Bucher Lab

University of Cologne, Germany

Molecular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Physiology

PI: Marcel Bucher

Gardiner Lab

University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Epigenetic variation in plants

PI: Jason Gardiner

Plant-microbe interactions at FGK

University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany

Interactions between petunia and microorganisms

PIs: Prof. Philipp Franken and Katja Burow

Applied Botany group

University of Perugia, Italy

Flower Pigmentation, abiotic stress response, reproductive biology

PI: Lara Reale

LBVpam

Université Jean Monnet, France

Biosynthesis of petunia VOCs and their derivatives

PI: Benoît Boachon

Molecular Cytogenetics

University of Leicester, UK

Chromosomal and repetitive DNA sequence evolution

PIs: Trude Schwarzacher, Pat Heslop-Harrison

Evolutionary genomics of plant mating systems

University of Lille, France

Gametophytic self-incompatibility in petunia

PI: Marie Monniaux

Reinhardt Plant Symbiosis Lab

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Interactions

PI: Didier Reinhardt

Petunia Self-incompatibility Group

University of Nottingham, UK

Self-incompatibility in Petunia

PI: Tim Robbins (Retired)

Vainstein Lab

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Specialized metabolites and genome engineering

PI: Alexander (Sasha) Vainstein

Petunia DFR Lab

University of Helsinki, Finland

Substrate specificity of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase

PI: Teemu Teeri

Plant Molecular Farming Group UCBM

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Overexpression of high-added value molecules in plants

PI: Eugenio Benvenuto

Petunia holobiont research

Julius Kühn Institute, Germany

Ultrastructural analysis of petunia-virus interactions

PI: Katja R. Richert-Pöggeler

Flower Genetic Design

The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich

Making designable flowers for art and educational purposes

Member: Nick Desnoyer

PI: Sophien Kamoun

The Dynamic Metabolons group

University of Copenhagen

Organization of biosynthetic enzyme complexes, metabolons

PI: Tomas Laursen