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10 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

10 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

10 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.

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Research Day 2013. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 13:53. Department of Plant Sciences Research Day 2013 brought thought provoking and enjoyable presentations by the heads of groups,

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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.

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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.

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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:.

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

10 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).

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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.

10 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

10 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

10 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

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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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"

10 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,

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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.

10 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.

10 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

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Taster practical lab day in Plant Sciences. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 01/07/2016 - 08:54. On Thursday June 30 the Virology group and Teaching Lab hosted 34 sixth form students from Northern

10 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

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