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27 Jul 2024: Scott on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 10:06. Our own Suzy Stoodley appears in the University's new book (The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge) celebrating successful female

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/04/2015 - 10:42. The Henderson laboratory has published new work in eLife investigating the effect of natural genetic diversity on the recombination ... Together this reveals a new and unexpected effect for genetic

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/11/2014 - 16:09. I am pleased to announce the the post of University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator has been offered to

27 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

27 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.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations to Chris Gilligan and Jim Haseloff. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 15/06/2015 - 09:55. Chris Gilligan has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for "services to plant

27 Jul 2024: The plants are being translocated to a new glasshouse that they have built at Sevan in one of three botanic gardens in Armenia.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Recombination hotspots in plants. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 09:43. Ian Henderson and colleagues report in Nature Genetics the fine-scale mapping of recombination rates in Arabidopsis

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Graduate tales. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/03/2014 - 09:23. Four Postgraduate students (Greg Mellers; Meredith Murphy Westwood; Elinor Thompson and Kit Wilkins) have shared their stories of

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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.

27 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.

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).