Plants affect mankind since its appearance on Earth: they provide people with food and medicinal drugs and they create an atmosphere in which humans and animals can thrive. The central role of plants for mankind is intensifying in the light of global (e.g. climate) change and the need to tap into novel sources for food, energy, and fiber. Additionally, plants and fungi are an essential component of global biodiversity and are characterized by an enormous variety of form and function, which have always fascinated humans.

If you are excited about this diversity, complexity, and beauty and if you are interested in the exploration of its secrets – with respect to evolutionary origins and consequences, ecological impacts, developmental processes, genetic and molecular underpinnings or plant-animal interactions – then the Master's Program Botany is the right choice for you. This program combines a broad and timely conceptual training with the practical application of innovative research methods to study the way of life, structure, function, development and evolution of plants and fungi.