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27 Jul 2024: Scott on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 10:06. Our own Suzy Stoodley appears in the University's new book (The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge) celebrating successful female

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/04/2015 - 10:42. The Henderson laboratory has published new work in eLife investigating the effect of natural genetic diversity on the recombination ... Together this reveals a new and unexpected effect for genetic

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/11/2014 - 16:09. I am pleased to announce the the post of University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator has been offered to

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 28/07/2014 - 09:03. New research from the Tanentzap group that has been published in the journal Biology Letters and is featured by ... Science Magazine and in the 23 July issue of New Scientist.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations to Chris Gilligan and Jim Haseloff. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 15/06/2015 - 09:55. Chris Gilligan has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for "services to plant

27 Jul 2024: The plants are being translocated to a new glasshouse that they have built at Sevan in one of three botanic gardens in Armenia.

27 Jul 2024: a new UK synthetic biology centre - OpenPlant - to focus on the development of open technologies in plant synthetic biology and their application in engineering new crop traits. ... The project will fast-forward the design of new plant traits. It takes

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Recombination hotspots in plants. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 09:43. Ian Henderson and colleagues report in Nature Genetics the fine-scale mapping of recombination rates in Arabidopsis

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Graduate tales. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/03/2014 - 09:23. Four Postgraduate students (Greg Mellers; Meredith Murphy Westwood; Elinor Thompson and Kit Wilkins) have shared their stories of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. It takes two to tango. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 30/05/2017 - 13:21. The NOPE1 gene is required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in maize. The causal gene is now identified using rice. It is

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Promotions ahoy. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 17/06/2014 - 08:47. The following promotions have been approved by the General Board:. Reader. Professor. These promotions are recognition of individual

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 17/01/2014 - 10:27. New research published in Science reveals how a critical plant transcription factor has undergone radical evolutionary change in DNA binding specificity. ... This work reveals a new mechanism for transcription factor

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 23/10/2015 - 10:06. The Henderson laboratory have published a new paper investigating epigenetic control of recombination hotspots. ... Recombination is a major tool for crop breeding and improvement, which creates new

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Lab taster day for sixth-form students. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 30/06/2017 - 10:05. On 28 July 2017 members of the Carr and Smith research groups and teaching hosted 36 sixth-form students from

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 14:05. A new paper by Tanentzap & Lee published in New Phytologist shows how traits that influence the responses of species ... New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14167. Image. Study site in South Island, New

27 Jul 2024: New approaches to pest and disease management are needed that take into account these multiple services and the different stakeholders they benefit, as well as the likelihood of greater threats in

27 Jul 2024: Cambridgeshire. The interest is in a new paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which he jointly led with two Canadian research groups. ... News articles. Quick links. Find us. Contact us. Phone: 01223 333900.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Pioneering researcher in meiotic recombination is remembered. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 30/05/2014 - 14:21. Robin Holliday 1932 -2014. Robin Holliday is a remembered in an excellent obituary in

27 Jul 2024: It paves the way for new understanding of patterning mechanisms in plants, and for Yoan's future plans to identify the mechanisms underpinning the diversification of moss architecture.

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 25/09/2015 - 15:22. A new paper by the Tanentzap group has been published in this month's issue of PLoS Biology. ... Image. Pivot irrigator transforming sensitive dry land ecosystems in South Island, New Zealand (credit: Peter Scott).

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botanic gardens 'key to saving plants'. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 27/09/2017 - 08:43. A paper from the Brockington Lab published in Nature Plants has quantified how much diversity is conserved

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Science Festival 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 20/03/2015 - 10:41. The Science Festival event on Saturday 14th March was a real success thanks to everyone who volunteered from the Department of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Measuring crossovers with fluorescent pollen. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/10/2013 - 09:18. The Henderson laboratory have published a paper in Nature Protocols describing measurement of crossover

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 15/01/2019 - 10:52. Exciting new research from the Paszkowski lab has been published in Nature Communications Roth et al, 2019 reporting the identification of ... Roth et al thereby define a new plant-controlled stage

27 Jul 2024: Using these new approaches, the lab investigated how distantly related plants use homologous genes to control the complex trait known as C. ... 4. photosynthesis. This new research showed that the same key control genes known as "transcription factors"

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 13/02/2015 - 11:49. The Department is saddened and shocked by the news of the death of Professor Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA. ... th. volume in the Collins New Naturalist series ("Woodlands"). Most recently he produced a volume on "The Ash Tree"

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences receives Green Impact Silver Award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 12/06/2015 - 14:24. Last Wednesday, Martin Howes, Colin Denston and Simon West attended the Green Impact awards ceremony

27 Jul 2024: Nothing new there, you might think. But two papers published recently by Nick Owen and Chandra Bellasio, postgrads in the Physiological Ecology Group, have both attracted editorial commentaries in their respective ... journals. Annie Borland and Xiaohan

27 Jul 2024: A new article, written by Jacqueline Garget for Research Horizons magazine, outlines the complex issues facing the adequate supply of nutritious food in one of the world’s most populous countries, ... Partners in Cambridge and India will work together,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Sixth formers explore plant sciences at Cambridge. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 14:27. On 30. th. June, Plant Sciences welcomed 23 lower sixth students to the Teaching Lab as part of the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botany School building Grade 2 listed. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 19/07/2017 - 15:55. It was announced last week that our building - the Botany School has been listed by Historic England as Grade 2.

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 01/07/2016 - 09:14. This week Richard Smith-Unna from the Hibberd Lab features heavily in a Nature News article on the dirty

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences highly commended at Green Gown Awards. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 30/11/2015 - 10:17. Plant Sciences' project 'LEDing the way to greener plant growth' was honoured at the national

27 Jul 2024: The molecular changes to gene expression therefore require an amplification of pre-existing responses rather than evolution of new ones.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Senior Academic Promotions 2020. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 25/06/2020 - 10:36. We are delighted to be able to announce the following promotions from 1 October for members of our academic staff:.

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 23/07/2019 - 15:52. Congratulations to Dr Giles Oldroyd, who has been elected as the new Russell R. ... As well as advancing crop science research at the University, Giles will help to lead the Crop Science Centre, and

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year nomination. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 11/02/2016 - 09:06. Congratulations to Dr Katharine Hubbard who until January this year was employed by the Department of

27 Jul 2024: The novel isoforms likely evolved new substrate specificities that allowed them to synthesise betalains from tyrosine precursors. ... The work is published in two linked papers in Molecular Biology and Evolution and the New Phytologist, and was funded by

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 12/05/2016 - 13:12. A new paper involving the Tanentzap group challenges the claim that mast seeding, which causes highly variable and synchronous ... New Phytologist. 210:419–430. Image. Snow tussock (Chionochloa

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Cambridge seminar on food security, May 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 18/05/2015 - 11:44. CambPlants and Global Food Security strategic initiative supported the Tropical Agriculture Association

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. From cacti to carnivores. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 02/04/2014 - 08:27. An NSF grant looking at the genomics of extreme adaptation has been co-awarded to Samuel Brockington at the Department of

27 Jul 2024: They then concluded their visit with a tour of the new teaching laboratory.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Soil organic matter to the rescue? Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 17/11/2016 - 14:06. Tropical rain forest are likely to grow more, and produce more litterfall, as a result of increasing temperature

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. MacRobbie Women in Science Research Seminar. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 06/11/2014 - 09:28. Plant Sciences is once again proud to honour Prof. Enid MacRobbie ScD FRS FRSE as a pioneer of plant

27 Jul 2024: In their new paper, Tanentzap et al. test the mechanisms by which plant evolutionary radiations emerge and influence ecological dynamics. ... They focus on 16 species-rich genera in the alpine zone of New Zealand.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Article called "Breakthrough" by Nucleic Acids Research. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 26/06/2015 - 10:00. Jake Harris, Seb Müller and David Baulcombe together with former colleague Attila Molnar

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Athena SWAN award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 01/10/2015 - 11:50. The Department is delighted to announce its Athena SWAN Bronze award from the Equality Challenge Unit. The award is in recognition

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 07/02/2018 - 08:34. New work from Julian Hibberd's lab published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA has

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Extracellular vesicles and membrane tubules at the symbiotic interface. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 18/02/2019 - 08:29. During arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis plants obtain essential minerals

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 30/11/2020 - 08:19. After a successful pilot in 2019, the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) have