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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. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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. 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

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. A sunny festival. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 18/03/2014 - 15:55. On Saturday, 15 March, Cambridge Science Festival Plant Science Marquee had another successful year with over 2000 visitors who were

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Fire: The Great Manipulator. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 14/12/2020 - 14:30. Fire. It burns five percent of the Earth's surface every year, and accounts for up to twenty percent of total global

27 Jul 2024: New research by the Tanentzap group now shows that microbial life is connected to the chemical environment in ways that can influence carbon cycling.

27 Jul 2024: The paper sheds new light on the role of climate as a key modulator of the relationship between diversity and productivity.

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 14/11/2018 - 16:00. Isaac Newton Trust funding has been awarded for Objects, a new interdisciplinary project to be led by the Cambridge Global Food ... The project is anticipated to generate novel ideas and enthusiasm

27 Jul 2024: We have reviewed the state of the art in genetic engineering of the nuclear and chloroplast genomes in plants, and highlight new approaches to harnessing their potential as custom agronomic systems

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Inspiring the Next Generation of Plant Scientists. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 17/02/2015 - 15:38. The Department has been awarded £18,500 from the University's Widening Participation Project Fund

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Mon, 16/06/2014 - 10:15. New research from the Tanentzap group freely available in the journal Nature Communications has shown that freshwater fish, an important source of nutrition

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Fun-tastic Festival of Plants. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 21/05/2014 - 12:32. The second Festival of Plants at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden was held on an exceptionally sunny and warm

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Engineered signaling allows two-way bacterial conversations. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 04/02/2016 - 08:25. Paul Grant and members of Jim Haseloff’s group, in collaboration with Neil Dalchau and

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Bromeliad evolution: from adversity to diversity. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 28/03/2017 - 13:42. The bromeliads are one of the most diverse plant families in the Americas, having mastered habitats

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Dr Nik Cunniffe wins Pilkington Teaching Prize 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 10:41. Congratulations to Dr Nik Cunniffe who has been awarded one of the University’s Pilkington

27 Jul 2024: The second open event, ‘Are you ready for a food revolution?’ is a series of short talks by an academic, an industry professional and a new and innovative start-up in

27 Jul 2024: In this new study, the authors have developed an experimental system that enables detailed analysis of the wheat root system in young plants in the presence of a neighbour, either another ... This study provides new insights into the effect of the weed

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Algae Biotech Experience. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/08/2015 - 08:43. On the 25. th. of July, fifteen 6. th. form students selected from sevens schools across East Anglia were invited to spend

27 Jul 2024: The Evolution of Plant Body Plans lab aims to understand the developmental and genetic changes that allowed plants to gain new growth habits and radiate on land.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Dr Katharine Hubbard wins teaching award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 07/05/2015 - 10:16. The Department's Teaching Associate Dr Katharine Hubbard has won a CUSU Student-Led Teaching Award. She has

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. LED a finalist in Green Gown Awards. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 13/07/2015 - 09:35. The Department’s ongoing work on developing LED lighting for use in plant growth research has been shortlisted

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. ‘Smoke detector’ enables plant-fungal partnerships. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 18/12/2015 - 11:36. In terrestrial ecosystems, plants take up phosphate predominantly via association with

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Brushing off unwanted advances - how plants exercise restraint over beneficial fungi. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 07/05/2020 - 12:35. When nutrients are scarce in the soil, plants recruit helper