Research Project
Nazione Hungary / France Anno 2018
Eva Kondorosi
2018 Balzan Prize for Chemical Ecology
For her important contributions to chemical ecology by her groundbreaking studies of the molecular biology of the symbiosis between legume plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, including the identification of nodulation genes and Nod factor family components, expression of nodulation genes by flavonoids, and cell cycle regulation and bacteroid differentiation during the establishment of the symbiosis.
Update 2025