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Christian Hertig

@chertig.bsky.social
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Scientist @IPK Leibniz Institut in Gatersleben

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Öko-Progressives Netzwerk e.V. @oekoprog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Am Sonntag wird über die Zukunft eines Bundeslandes entschieden. Bildung & Forschung sind Ländersache und das Programm des erwarteten Wahlsiegers will u.a. die Selbstbestimmung der Universitäten einschränken. Wir haben uns die Folgen für die Wissenschaft angesehen.⤵️ oekoprog.org/keine-stimme...
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Was die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt für Unis und Forschung plant - ÖkoProg
ÖkoProg appeliert: Setzt euch dafür ein, dass Wissenschafts- und Forschungsfreiheit erhalten bleiben! Keine Stimme der AfD!
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today I had the honor to present my work of @leibnizipk.bsky.social in the opening session of the conference of the German Plant Breeder Society at the Martin Luther University in Halle / Saale. Thanks to Kan Wang for the picture.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today I had the honor to give the opening talk for the biological section of 26th Gamow conference in Odessa, which war-caused just is hold online. I could present our progress in the establishment of alternative Cas enzymes for plant breeding.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today our article about the importance of COM2/WFZP genes in barley and wheat was published in The Plant Journal. We describe a dosage-dependent regulation of spike development in temperate cereals with a potential for higher yield. A study from @leibnizipk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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<fi>COMPOSITUM 2</fi>/ <fi>WHEAT FRIZZY PANICLE</fi> dosage dependently regulates inflorescence and root architecture in <fi>Triticeae</fi> cereals
FRIZZY PANICLE has been described as a principal regulator of cereal inflorescence development; however, the precise regulatory mechanism, specifically, the role of the WFZP-B allele in spike archite....
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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Mit der heute beschlossenen Neuregelung des europäischen Gentechnikrechtes wird die Anwendung „Neuer Genomischer Techniken“ wie der Genschere CRISPR Cas deutlich vereinfacht. Was das bedeutet, erklärt Nicolaus von Wirén vom @leibnizipk.bsky.social. ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/yc6j8s9j
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The new European regulation for NGT plants was finally decided and gives now a uniform and scientifically-based rulement in all over Europe for targeted-modified plants. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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New genomic techniques for plants to boost innovation in sustainable agriculture | News | European Parliament
Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Attending the Annual Meeting of BMFTR funded Plant Research 2026 in the Conference hotel at the Templin lake in Potsdam. Presenting our work in the TeaM7 project and participating in the partner dialogue plant biotechnology of the High Tech Agenda Germany. Great discussions and many meetings.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Giving a talk about new Cas endonucleases at the workshop of the new working group plant biotechnology of the German society of Plant breeding at @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today the 10th classes of the Ballenstedt gymnasium visited us at @leibnizipk.bsky.social to learn new things about Chromosomes and Genome editing of crops. Two lectures and four lab presentations made my day :-) it is good to see interested young people.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Tradition and modern time in one picture. Cas-mediated genome editing advertised by traditional art from the German mountains „Erzgebirge“.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Project meeting of TEAM7 project for establishment of new genome editing technologies for breeder‘s purposes during the GFPi annual meeting in the federal city of Bonn. I was presenting the part of PRB group @leibnizipk.bsky.social. Very nice atmosphere and a fruitful discussion.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The unraveling of purple grains caused by ANT2 in barley. A new story from PRB group @ @leibnizipk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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Analysis of Anthocyanin-Less 2 Diversity in Barley Reveals a Specific Allele to Cause Purple-Colored Grains
The purple color of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grain is attributed to anthocyanins which are beneficial for human health. Synthesis of these pigments in both grain and vegetative tissues is contr...
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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Das @leibnizipk.bsky.social ist neuer Partner im Exzellenzcluster CEPLAS für Pflanzenwissenschaften! Wir freuen uns nach der Bekanntgabe durch die @dfg.de auf die noch engere Kooperation mit unseren Partnern in Köln, Düsseldorf und Jülich! ➡️Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2s2p65ya
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 22/05/2025
Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 22/05/2025
Wir starten in den Auswahltag der #Exzellenzcluster. Heute kommt das Expertengremium u. die für Wissenschaft und Forschung zuständigen Minister*innen von Bund und Ländern zusammen. Ab ca. 17 Uhr geben GWK-Vorsitzender Falko Mohrs u. Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär die Ergebnisse bekannt.
Gruppenbild aus der Exzellenzkommission: GWK-Vorsitzender Falko Mohrs, Bundesforschungsministerin Dorothee Bär, DFG-Präsidentin Katja Becker, Wissenschaftsratsvorsitzender Wolfgang Wick.Blick in die Exzellenzkommission.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Concert in the passion time in the #Quedlinburg St. Nikolai Church with the Oratorio Choir, the Capella St. Aegidii and Solistic singers. Wonderful music from 18th and 19th century in this crazy times.
ProgrammGesamtensemble aus Oratorienchor und Capella St. ArgidiiDetailansichtSolistinnen vor dem Chor
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Participating a basic course for gene technic safety at the Charité in Berlin.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
BMBF Statusseminar 2025 in Potsdam - Representing TeaM7 project for expanding breeders toolkits for genome editing in crops.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A video about the collaboration between IPK Leibniz-Institut and the Gymnasium in Ballenstedt, where I‘m involved in the lectures for the 10th and 12th classes.
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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Seit Jahren kooperiert das @leibnizipk.bsky.social mit dem Wolterstorff-Gymnasium in Ballenstedt. Wie die Zusammenarbeit läuft, zeigt Wenke Dargel, Volontärin der Pressestelle der @unihalle.bsky.social, in einem Video. Produziert hat sie es bei ihrer Station am IPK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xdu...
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Lernen mit Aha-Effekt: Wie das IPK und das Gymnasium in Ballenstedt kooperieren
YouTube video by IPK Leibniz-Institut
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our new publication about the two-component system in barley is now public available and gives an overview about all high-confident genes which are involved in this signaling system with a special focus on grain development. bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Genome-wide characterization of two-component system elements in barley enables the identification of grain-specific phosphorelay genes - BMC Plant Biology
Background The two-component system (TCS) serves as a common intracellular signal transduction pathway implicated in various processes of plant development and response to abiotic stress. With regard ...
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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Researchers from the @leibnizipk.bsky.social and the @kit.edu investigated how the chromosomal location affects epigenetic stability and gene expression by chromosome engineering. The results were published in the journal "NewPhytologist". ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5xftzpez ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/4tz7zdb9
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today I gave a lecture for school students of the 12. class at the Wolterstorff-Gymnasium in Ballenstedt about genome editing in crops. It was very nice to go back to the old school of my grandfather.
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Old story, but if you want you can have a look to my doctoral thesis dealing with the investigation of yield-potential increase in barley and wheat by targeted mutagenesis of SPL14, SPL17 and BH/WFZP genes doi.org/10.15488/13269 only in German available but still very good @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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Beeinflussung des Ertragspotentials von Gerste und Weizen durch Modifikation ährenarchitektonischer Eigenschaften mittels Cas-Endonuklease-vermittelter Mutagenese
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Anwendung des Genome Engineerings mittels RNA-vermittelter Cas9-Endonuklease in den Getreidearten Weizen und Gerste. Dieses neue Werkzeug der Pflanzenzüchtung erm...
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Recent Research Part 3 on Saint Nicholas day: Continuation of the naked barley story by investigation of transcriptome changes in grains of hulled and naked barley doi.org/10.3390/ijms... @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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Shedding New Light on the Hull-Pericarp Adhesion Mechanisms of Barley Grains by Transcriptomics Analysis of Isogenic NUD1 and nud1 Lines
In barley having adherent hulls, an irreversible connection between the pericarp with both palea and lemma is formed during grain maturation. A mutation in the NUDUM 1 (NUD1) gene prevents this connec...
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Recent Research Part 2: Restoration of HvMYC2 by targeted mutagenesis leads to anthocyanin accumulation in the aleuron layer of the barley grain doi.org/10.3390/ijms...
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Accumulation of Anthocyanin in the Aleurone of Barley Grains by Targeted Restoration of the MYC2 Gene
Blue barley grain pigmentation results from anthocyanin accumulation in the aleurone layer. Anthocyanins are known for their beneficial effects on human health. The gene encoding the MYELOCYTOMATOSIS ...
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Recent Research Part 1: Reduction of cold-induced sweetening by KO of PAIN1 gene in potato doi.org/10.1007/s115...
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Reduction in Cold-Induced Sweetening by Cas9 Endonuclease-Mediated Knockout of the POTATO VACUOLAR INVERTASE 1 Gene in the Cultivar ‘Symfonia’ - Potato Research
Storage of potato tubers at low temperatures leads to the degradation of starch into reducing sugars, resulting in cold-induced sweetening (CIS). These sugars react with free amino acids when processe...
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Christian Hertig @chertig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Finally I also start here at @bsky.app In future you find more about my research and interesting science topics
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