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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.

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Big leaf, small niche. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 06/07/2017 - 09:51. The leaves of the bromeliads, one of the largest plant families in the tropical Americas, occur in a set of shapes that have

10 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.

10 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 13/02/2015 - 11:49. The Department is saddened and shocked by the news of the death of Professor Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA. ... th. volume in the Collins New Naturalist series ("Woodlands"). Most recently he produced a volume on "The Ash Tree"

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Titan Arum flowered. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 13/07/2015 - 16:02. The Titan Arum, Amorphophallus titanum, has flowered at the Botanic Garden. Also known as the corpse flower, the titan arum heats

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Recent outreach. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 07/05/2020 - 12:53. Young Innovators' Forum visit to the Sainsbury Lab and the Algal Innovation Centre. At the end of January, the CambPlants Hub visited

10 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

10 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

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Four-year BBSRC funded studentships available. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 22/10/2014 - 14:09. The University of Cambridge is offering up to 30 four-year BBSRC funded studentships starting in

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Breeding pollinator-friendly crops for the future. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 09/07/2015 - 08:38. Beverley Glover and two of her PhD students have teamed together with Jeff Ollerton of the

10 Jul 2024: The new study is published in the journal PLOS Pathogens (). Understanding the smells that attract bees, and reproducing these artificially by using similar chemical blends, may enable growers to protect or

10 Jul 2024: The new research uses a combination of live imaging, growth analyses, and statistical and computational modeling to determine what regulates thallus shape in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. ... The work continues at Jill's new lab at Bristol

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plasma membrane targeted PIN proteins regulate shoot development in a moss. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 02/12/2014 - 11:27. The plant hormone auxin is a key regulator of plant development, with

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Microbial consortia preserved for industrial biotechnology. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 13/05/2015 - 10:45. Microalgae is a hugely diverse group with a significant biotechnology potential,

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Why are some places so species-rich? Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 13/02/2019 - 09:07. Biodiversity hotspots only encompass 20% of the Earth’s surface but hold more than 50% of all vertebrate species.

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Optimising and communicating options for control of plant disease. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 22/04/2015 - 13:39. and Chris Gilligan have published work in PLoS Computational Biology showing how

10 Jul 2024: New research from the Tanentzap lab shows how future changes in forest cover around lakes will influence the contributions of inland waters to global carbon cycles.

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plants can make lakes gassy. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 08/05/2018 - 13:46. Lakes release gas too. And plants may play a key role in the process. The newest paper from the Tanentzap group shows

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Predicting the spread of forest regeneration in response to deer management. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 18/09/2013 - 09:25. Increasing deer populations threaten the conservation of many different

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Change (your seed size) fast and multiply. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 28/07/2017 - 08:05. Why are some groups of flowering plants extremely diverse while others are very poor in species? Are the

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. A concentrated issue for the Griffiths' group. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 18/10/2017 - 09:18. A special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany represents the outputs of the Carbon

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Schools outreach by the Cambridge Colleges BioScience Experience project. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 02/04/2015 - 15:12. The Department has been hosting the Cambridge Colleges BioScience Experience

10 Jul 2024: New research from the Coomes group recently published in the journal Remote Sensing evaluates the abilities of these relatively nascent technologies to classify land cover and forest dynamics against a more

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. In recognition of Professor Richard West FRS. Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 15/01/2021 - 09:35. Richard West, Head of Department 1977-91, died on 30 Dec 2020 after a short illness. We are sorry to

10 Jul 2024: Christian R. Boehm from the Haseloff laboratory is lead author of a new paper in Plant & Cell Physiology demonstrating expression of a fluorescent reporter from the chloroplast genome of Marchantia polymorpha

10 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 27/02/2015 - 13:09. 2015 signals a new phase in Plant Sciences' efforts to reduce energy consumption and be greener. ... Martin Howes has arrived to fill the new role of Energy Co-ordinator, getting to grips with the

10 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

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. How floral development helps us understand floral evolution. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 08/05/2015 - 09:17. In a team effort, the Glover and Brockington labs have worked together to write the

10 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Contagious silencing in tomato. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/03/2016 - 13:20. Alleles of genes can be heritably expressed at different levels despite sharing the same sequence: they are called

10 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 13/06/2014 - 14:56. With the threat of bee shortages leading to concerns about crop pollination, a new scientifically-designed mix of flower