GreenRobust: Understanding Robustness of Plant Systems from Molecules to Ecosystems (EXC 3099)

DFG-Project (2026-  ) Joint application (Clusters of Excellence 'ExStra') by the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim. (Speaker: Thomas Greb, Univ. Heidelberg; Rosa Lozano-Durán, Univ. Tübingen; Karl Schmid, Univ. Hohenheim)  
  

Reciprocal fitness consequences in the defense mediated interaction between a toxic plant and a sequestering herbivore

DFG-Project (2024-  )
  

Role of constitutive and induced chemodiversity in Solanum dulcamara in plant-herbivore interactions

DFG-Project (2020-  ) Subproject of the DFG Research Group FOR 3000: Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific Chemodiversity in Plants (Speaker: Caroline Müller, Univ. Bielefeld)
Involved researchers: Anke Steppuhn, Kruthika Sen Aragam
 

Exploring the genetic basis of wound nectar secretion in Solanum dulcamara

DFG Project (2018-2022)
Involved researchers: Anke Steppuhn, Tobias Lortzing, Lu Li

Plant priming of anti-herbivore defences by insect oviposition (B02)

DFG-Project (2012-2020), DFG Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 973: Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress (Speaker: Monika Hilker, FU Berlin)
Involved researchers: Anke Steppuhn, Tina Kasal-Slavik and Rainer Cramer

How do zoophytophagous predators affect plant resistance against different insect herbivores?

in cooperation with Nicole van Dam (iDIV Leipzig, Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena) and Maria Pappa (Democritus Univ. of Thrace, DUTH)
Involved researcher: Anke Steppuhn

Effects of plant anti-herbivore defences on the immunity of herbivorous insects against entomopathogenes

Involved researcher: Anke Steppuhn

Beneficial microbes to optimize pest control in sustainable tomato production

Cooperation partner in the project BeMOST of Maria Pappa (Democritus Univ. of Thrace, DUTH)
Involved researchers: Anke Steppuhn and Tobias Lortzing.