The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has funded the Sino-German International Research Training Group AMAIZE-P (DFG GRK 2366/1) since October 2018, with the topic of "Adaptation of maize-based food-feed-energy systems to limited phosphate resources“ at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart) in cooperation with the China Agricultural University (Beijing).