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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