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Promotions ahoy | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-06-1827 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 -
Silence! - controlling recombination hotspots in plant genomes |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-10-2327 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 -
Trait evolution underlies biodiversity patterns | Department of Plant …
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-11-0727 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 -
The Importance of Promiscuity | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-01-1727 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 -
Lab taster day for sixth-form students | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-06-3027 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 -
The Consequence of Tree Pests and Diseases for Ecosystem Services |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-11-1527 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 -
Pioneering researcher in meiotic recombination is remembered |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-05-3027 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 -
'Jellification' of freshwater | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-11-2627 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. -
Three ancient hormonal cues co-ordinate shoot branching in a moss |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-03-2727 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. -
Farming a better planet | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-09-2527 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). -
Botanic gardens 'key to saving plants' | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-09-2627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botanic gardens 'key to saving plants'. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 27/09/2017 - 08:43. A paper from the Brockington Lab published in Nature Plants has quantified how much diversity is conserved -
Science Festival 2015 | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-03-2027 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Science Festival 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 20/03/2015 - 10:41. The Science Festival event on Saturday 14th March was a real success thanks to everyone who volunteered from the Department of -
Measuring crossovers with fluorescent pollen | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-10-1127 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Measuring crossovers with fluorescent pollen. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/10/2013 - 09:18. The Henderson laboratory have published a paper in Nature Protocols describing measurement of crossover -
Plant Receptor-Like Kinase controls completion of fungal life cycle…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2019-01-1527 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 15/01/2019 - 10:52. Exciting new research from the Paszkowski lab has been published in Nature Communications Roth et al, 2019 reporting the identification of ... Roth et al thereby define a new plant-controlled stage -
Professor Oliver Rackham 1939-2015 | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-02-1327 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" -
Plant Sciences receives Green Impact Silver Award | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-06-1227 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences receives Green Impact Silver Award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 12/06/2015 - 14:24. Last Wednesday, Martin Howes, Colin Denston and Simon West attended the Green Impact awards ceremony -
Studies in concentration | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-12-1027 Jul 2024: Nothing new there, you might think. But two papers published recently by Nick Owen and Chandra Bellasio, postgrads in the Physiological Ecology Group, have both attracted editorial commentaries in their respective ... journals. Annie Borland and Xiaohan -
Using natural variation to understand complex traits | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-06-0627 Jul 2024: Using these new approaches, the lab investigated how distantly related plants use homologous genes to control the complex trait known as C. ... 4. photosynthesis. This new research showed that the same key control genes known as "transcription factors" -
Changing the face of Indian farming | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-10-2527 Jul 2024: A new article, written by Jacqueline Garget for Research Horizons magazine, outlines the complex issues facing the adequate supply of nutritious food in one of the world’s most populous countries, ... Partners in Cambridge and India will work together, -
Sixth formers explore plant sciences at Cambridge | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-07-0127 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Sixth formers explore plant sciences at Cambridge. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 14:27. On 30. th. June, Plant Sciences welcomed 23 lower sixth students to the Teaching Lab as part of the -
Botany School building Grade 2 listed | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-07-1927 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botany School building Grade 2 listed. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 19/07/2017 - 15:55. It was announced last week that our building - the Botany School has been listed by Historic England as Grade 2. -
Detective work uncovers dirty tricks at Wiley | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-07-01b27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 01/07/2016 - 09:14. This week Richard Smith-Unna from the Hibberd Lab features heavily in a Nature News article on the dirty -
Plant Sciences highly commended at Green Gown Awards | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-11-3027 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences highly commended at Green Gown Awards. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 30/11/2015 - 10:17. Plant Sciences' project 'LEDing the way to greener plant growth' was honoured at the national -
HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year nomination | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-02-1127 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year nomination. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 11/02/2016 - 09:06. Congratulations to Dr Katharine Hubbard who until January this year was employed by the Department of -
Evidence that the C4 pathway is built on existing gene networks in C3 …
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-10-2027 Jul 2024: The molecular changes to gene expression therefore require an amplification of pre-existing responses rather than evolution of new ones. -
Solving the genetic origin of betalain pigmentation | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-06-0227 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 -
Senior Academic Promotions 2020 | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-06-2527 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Senior Academic Promotions 2020. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 25/06/2020 - 10:36. We are delighted to be able to announce the following promotions from 1 October for members of our academic staff:. -
Russell R. Geiger Professor of Crop Science | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2019-07-2227 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 23/07/2019 - 15:52. Congratulations to Dr Giles Oldroyd, who has been elected as the new Russell R. ... As well as advancing crop science research at the University, Giles will help to lead the Crop Science Centre, and -
Mast seeding is sensitive to climate change | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-05-1227 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 -
Cambridge seminar on food security, May 2015 | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-05-1827 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Cambridge seminar on food security, May 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 18/05/2015 - 11:44. CambPlants and Global Food Security strategic initiative supported the Tropical Agriculture Association -
From cacti to carnivores | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-04-0227 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. From cacti to carnivores. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 02/04/2014 - 08:27. An NSF grant looking at the genomics of extreme adaptation has been co-awarded to Samuel Brockington at the Department of -
Malaysian visit | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-06-18a27 Jul 2024: They then concluded their visit with a tour of the new teaching laboratory. -
Soil organic matter to the rescue? | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-11-1727 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Soil organic matter to the rescue? Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 17/11/2016 - 14:06. Tropical rain forest are likely to grow more, and produce more litterfall, as a result of increasing temperature -
MacRobbie Women in Science Research Seminar | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-11-0627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. MacRobbie Women in Science Research Seminar. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 06/11/2014 - 09:28. Plant Sciences is once again proud to honour Prof. Enid MacRobbie ScD FRS FRSE as a pioneer of plant -
Athena SWAN award | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-10-01a27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Athena SWAN award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 01/10/2015 - 11:50. The Department is delighted to announce its Athena SWAN Bronze award from the Equality Challenge Unit. The award is in recognition -
Explaining the origins of species diversity | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-07-09a27 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. -
Article called "Breakthrough" by Nucleic Acids Research |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-06-2627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Article called "Breakthrough" by Nucleic Acids Research. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 26/06/2015 - 10:00. Jake Harris, Seb Müller and David Baulcombe together with former colleague Attila Molnar -
Duons that regulate the spatial patterning of gene expression in…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2018-02-0727 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 07/02/2018 - 08:34. New work from Julian Hibberd's lab published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA has -
Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-11-3027 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 30/11/2020 - 08:19. After a successful pilot in 2019, the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) have -
Extracellular vesicles and membrane tubules at the symbiotic…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2019-02-1827 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Extracellular vesicles and membrane tubules at the symbiotic interface. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 18/02/2019 - 08:29. During arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis plants obtain essential minerals -
A sunny festival | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-03-1827 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 -
Fire: The Great Manipulator | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-12-1427 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 -
Invisible world within our waters | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2019-11-2227 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. -
Climate modulates diversity-productivity relationships in forests |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-01-2827 Jul 2024: The paper sheds new light on the role of climate as a key modulator of the relationship between diversity and productivity. -
Isaac Newton Trust funding awarded | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2018-11-1427 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 -
Synthetic Botany | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-03-0227 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 -
Inspiring the Next Generation of Plant Scientists | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-02-1727 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 -
Forests make fish fatter | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-06-1627 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 -
Fun-tastic Festival of Plants | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-05-2127 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 -
Bromeliad evolution: from adversity to diversity | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-03-2827 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
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