Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology

The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) was founded in 1994, as one of 18 institutes on the territory of the former GDR. The founding director was Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lothar Willmitzer, who is the director of one of the three departments which have been established since then. From originally only 16 employees the institute grew into a large institute, which now employs about 360 people from all over the world, who put their combined efforts into elucidating the secrets of plants.