Functional and Applied Genomics

Our competencies

Plants are the foundation of all life on Earth. They are indispensable for the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, our sustainable supply of food and raw materials, and the stabilization of the global climate.

Their further development as high-yielding crops, their adaptation to new environmental conditions and their use for the production of valuable plant biopolymers and secondary metabolites require a precise knowledge of the developmental and metabolic pathways involved in order to be able to modify and optimize them in a targeted manner.
The Functional and Applied Genomics Department of  Fraunhofer IME in  Münster and Aachen is taking on this challenge. The knowledge gained forms the basis for innovative and knowledge-based plant breeding and the production of novel functional biomolecules.