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27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Moss powered radio. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 15:18. On Monday 10 March, John Humphreys, doyen of Radio 4’s Today programme, met his match in the form of Dr Paolo Bombelli, from

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Society for General Microbiology Medal. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 28/10/2014 - 10:58. The Society for General Microbiology’s 2015 Prize Medal has been awarded to Sir David Baulcombe, Royal

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 10/09/2014 - 08:21. New research from the Coomes group aiming to untangle the mechanisms behind diversity-productivity relationships in forests has just

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences in the field - students put the science into salads. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 22/04/2015 - 14:14. The 2nd year Plant and Microbial Sciences class got a chance to get out of the

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 20/10/2017 - 13:10. In a new paper out this week in Nature, Beverley Glover’s group explore the role that nanoscale surface

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Counting cyanobacteria the easy way. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 24/04/2015 - 08:42. Bioethanol is emerging as one of the most promising non-fossil energy resources. However, ethanol production from

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Making sense of canopies. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 27/11/2015 - 09:58. Béatrice Wedeux and David Coomes published a paper in Biogeosciences analysing how environmental factors and selective

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 19/07/2016 - 09:25. The Henderson group has published a new paper looking at the relationship between genetic recombination and genes important for

27 Jul 2024: Research shines a new light on how nature’s most complex metabolite, vitamin B. ... The new study, published this week in Current Biology, demonstrates that cyanobacteria actually produce a form of the vitamin called pseudocobalamin (Fig.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 21/10/2016 - 08:54. Last week, Tommaso Jucker and David Coomes - along with a team of

27 Jul 2024: The group has started a new project funded by the Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development programme to translate this work to crops.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. A bird's-eye view of forest recovery. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 30/06/2015 - 14:11. Airborne laser scanning is emerging as an important tool for forest monitoring. By firing 200,000 pulses of

27 Jul 2024: Announced today by President of the Royal Society, Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, 51 new Fellows, 10 Foreign Members and one Honorary Fellow have been selected for their outstanding contributions to scientific understanding. ... As the inaugural director of the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Widespread ecological changes in Antarctica. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 19/05/2017 - 08:28. Work published in Current Biology this week by Jessica Royles and Howard Griffiths, along with colleagues

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Thu, 23/03/2017 - 13:26. A new paper in the journal Science Advances led by the Tanentzap group presents widespread evidence that aquatic consumers use terrestrial resources depending

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Farmer training outreach in Uganda. Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 25/01/2019 - 10:35. Warren Arinaitwe, a Cambridge-Africa PhD student from the Carr group, reaches out to smallholder farmers in Uganda

27 Jul 2024: ramorum hosts (Meentemeyer et al., 2011) and current quarantine counties in California; (b) a schematic showing how partial quarantine could be deployed if the pathogen appears in a new county.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Simple changes underpin the evolution of a complex trait. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 25/01/2016 - 10:17. Professor Julian Hibberd’s Lab published a significant step towards understanding the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Evening at the museum. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 28/10/2016 - 10:03. Members of the Epidemiology and Modelling Group attended the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2016 in London last week sponsored

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Science Research Fellowships at Cambridge University. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 11:22. The Department of Plant Sciences has exciting career development opportunities for

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 28/03/2017 - 14:46. A new study in New Phytologist from Nik Cunniffe's group shows how disease management strategies based on epidemiological ... New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14488. Quick links. Find us. Contact us.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Connecting recombination and diversity in plant genomes. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 17/09/2020 - 11:19. Meiosis is a special cell division that generates gametes required for sex. During meiosis,

27 Jul 2024: Plant geneticists at the University of Cambridge have found that different wild varieties of thale cress (Arabidopsis) show different levels of recombination – the process by which genes come together in new ... These findings may find application when

27 Jul 2024: Throughout the afternoon, delegates captured ideas of how the new information could be incorporated into forward planning of the business, and follow-up conversations will take place with AB Sugar's

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 14/11/2013 - 14:21. David Coomes' group have contributed to a paper published in PNAS (doi:

27 Jul 2024: Iridescent flowers are never as dramatically rainbow-coloured as iridescent beetles, birds or fish, but their petals produce the perfect signal for bees, according to a new study published by Beverley

27 Jul 2024: He comments on the session: “We are hopeful that bringing students, principal investigators, and representatives from funding bodies into the same room like this will lead to new opportunities for the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Young Innovators Forum a success. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 30/11/2015 - 15:50. The launch of the Young Innovators' Forum (YIF) was a success. Last Wednesday, almost 100 farmers and Plant Sciences

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Thriving in a tough environment. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 24/07/2017 - 08:33. Spare a thought for seaweeds such as the red alga Porphyra umbilicalis (laver or Atlantic nori), which survives in

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Beverley Glover joins the Board of Trustees at RBG Edinburgh. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 27/02/2015 - 09:26. The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment in Scotland has announced

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 01/10/2020 - 11:59. A new Centre in Cambridge, designed to fast-track technologies to sustainably improve farmers’ yields worldwide, was launched today. ... We are excited to be opening this new Centre, which can

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. CAM – working the night shift. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 09:18. A paper on Agave by Nick Owen with Howard Griffiths and Jamie Males from the Physiological Ecology group, and

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. The plant that wanted to be an animal. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 06/05/2016 - 11:48. Most of our knowledge regarding miRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression derives from studies in

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Physiological basis of crop improvement and agronomic development. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 26/09/2013 - 15:28. Celestin Ukozehasi has been invited to speak in Nairobi on 3rd October. You can

27 Jul 2024: The new research follows on from this work and shows that the sensitivity of Rx can also be enhanced, by simply targeting a different portion of the gene.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Groundbreaking research results in grant. Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 07/11/2018 - 11:35. University of Cambridge receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for groundbreaking research in Global

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Making use of waste. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 25/06/2018 - 14:28. Algae shown to grow on excess nitrates sourced from local drinking water company. Matt Davey and several other members of Alison

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Modelling offers hope for future invaders. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 03/05/2016 - 11:08. and colleagues have published a paper in PNAS modelling potential management of sudden oak death in

27 Jul 2024: This new research has shown that these sugars also play a role in circadian rhythms.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Mobile sRNAs regulate methylation through distinct pathways. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 12/08/2016 - 12:00. Small (s)RNAs of 21 to 24 nucleotides are associated with RNA silencing and methylation

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. CAM: sustainable bioenergy and resilience to climate change. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 07/05/2015 - 13:04. Crops dedicated to bioenergy production have been widely criticised for competing with

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations, Ottoline Leyser. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 14:30. Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS has been elected as Regius Professor of Botany and she will take up the post

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Can plants keep time? Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 02/07/2013 - 08:44. On Thursday 23rd May Dr Alex Webb was interviewed by The Naked Scientist on plants daily rhythms and how they affect the way

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Aspirin's parent and RNA silencing jointly protect plants from TMV. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 25/01/2016 - 12:46. Salicylic acid (SA: the parent compound of aspirin) is an important plant hormone

27 Jul 2024: 38081 at https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk No evidence that England’s new ‘biodiversity boost’ planning policy will help birds or butterflies ... field-item even"><a

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Airborne Laser Scanning finds the tallest tree yet discovered in the Tropics. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 13/06/2016 - 13:39. The Yellow Meranti stands 89.5m tall in an area of forest known as

27 Jul 2024: New computer models will help to monitor and predict the course of the disease. ... find new outbreaks efficiently; and how we know if the disease is absent from an area.

27 Jul 2024: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 24 February 2016 at the Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi between India’s Department of Biotechnology and a consortium of British ... On the foundation of this excellence we are delighted to take

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Helen Holmes wins prize. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 10/07/2013 - 10:02. One of our Postgraduate students, Helen Holmes, has recently won best poster at the UK Federation of Plant Sciences

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Treetops protect forest life from global warming. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 15/05/2020 - 14:30. The forest canopy mitigates peak summer temperatures for the understorey. When that shade disappears,