PlantsCoChallenge is a Research Unit funded by the DFG. The consortium, comprising 12 Principal Investigators, aims to increase our understanding of plant stress adaptations. An overarching objective of the program is to characterize physiological and evolutionary plant adaptations to co-occurring stress in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems while integrating the role of plant microbiota in stress resistance.
The PlantsCoChallenge program includes plant scientists from six research institutes: the Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, the Helmholtz Institute GEOMAR in Kiel, the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin, the University Münster and the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (EKUT). Research in the program includes five distinct plant species, adapted to different environmental conditions, allowing us to conduct innovative comparative analyses. 

PlantsCoChallenge: https://www.plantscochallenge.de