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28 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

28 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

28 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.

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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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.

28 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

28 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

28 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

28 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