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Plants form the basis of all life on earth. They are indispensable/essential? for the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, our sustainable supply of food and raw materials, and the stabilization of the global climate.
Their ongoing development as high-yielding crops and their adaptation to new environmental conditions as well as their use to yield valuable plant biopolymers and secondary metabolites require precise knowledge of the developmental and metabolic pathways involved to enable their modification and optimization in a targeted manner.