The oat genome unlocks the unique health benefits of oats

Why oats are healthier and cause fewer allergies and intolerances than other cereals

20-May-2022 - Researchers have succeeded in sequencing and characterizing the entire genome of oat. Compared to other cereals and humans, the oat genome architecture is very complex. Scientists from Helmholtz Munich, Lund University and the ScanOats network finally elucidated at the genetic level why oats are ...

First Genomic Atlas for Global Wheat Improvement

26-Nov-2020 - In a landmark discovery for global wheat production, Helmholtz Zentrum München together with an international research team has sequenced the genomes for 15 wheat varieties representing breeding programs around the world, enabling scientists and breeders to much more quickly identify influential ...

Why the corn sometimes falls far from the stem

29-Jul-2020 - For the first time, scientists decoded the European maize genome. In comparison with North American maize lines, they discovered differences that may contribute to the heterosis effect. A better understanding of the effect could enable breeding with higher yields. These findings could be ...

What and how much we eat might change our internal clocks and hormone responses

08-Nov-2019 - For the first time, a study led by researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) shows how glucocorticoid hormones, such as cortisol, control sugar and fat levels differently during day and night, feeding and fasting, rest and activity, over the course ...

Heritage of the "Pasta Wheat" mapped

New perspectives for breeding

10-Apr-2019 - An international consortium has published the complete genome sequence of durum wheat in Nature Genetics. Her work not only provides insights into the development of this cereal into today's crop, but also shows ways to optimize the plant through targeted breeding. Researchers from Helmholtz ...

Satiety visualized in 3D

10-Oct-2018 - Many overweight people lack the feeling of being full. It was long thought that this was due to the disrupted transport of the satiety hormone leptin to the brain. That is not the case, as a group of scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München has now shown in the ‘International Journal of ...

Bread for the world - wheat genome fully mapped

21-Aug-2018 - A thirteen-year scientific effort has culminated in a paper published in the journal ‘Science’: over 200 scientists from 73 research institutions in 20 countries joined forces to map the genome of bread wheat. Researchers from Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics ...