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Control fast or control smart? When should epidemics be controlled? | …
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2018-02-2227 Jul 2024: Their paper in PLOS Computational Biology introduces a new method to determine the optimal time to begin disease management. -
Moss powered radio | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-03-1227 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 -
Society for General Microbiology Medal | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-10-3027 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 -
Wood production in mixed species forests | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-09-10a27 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 -
Plant Sciences in the field - students put the science into salads |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-04-2327 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 -
Halo, is it bee you’re looking for? | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-10-2027 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 -
Counting cyanobacteria the easy way | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-04-2427 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 -
Making sense of canopies | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-11-2727 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 -
Sex and disease - recombination hotspots in plant immunity genes |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-07-1927 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 -
Complex vitamin cycling between marine phytoplankton | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-04-0127 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. -
Viruses make plants too spicy for aphids | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-12-0627 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. -
A bird's-eye view of forest recovery | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-06-3027 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 -
Giles Oldroyd elected as a fellow of the Royal Society | Department…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-04-2927 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 -
Farmer training outreach in Uganda | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2019-01-2527 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 -
Plant pathogens can't read maps | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-01-2227 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. -
Simple changes underpin the evolution of a complex trait | Department …
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-01-2527 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 -
Plant Science Research Fellowships at Cambridge University |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-09-2627 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 -
Connecting recombination and diversity in plant genomes | Department…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-09-1727 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Connecting recombination and diversity in plant genomes. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 17/09/2020 - 11:19. Meiosis is a special cell division that generates gametes required for sex. During meiosis, -
Future-proofing sugar production | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/sugar-production27 Jul 2024: Throughout the afternoon, delegates captured ideas of how the new information could be incorporated into forward planning of the business, and follow-up conversations will take place with AB Sugar's -
Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-11-1427 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 14/11/2013 - 14:21. David Coomes' group have contributed to a paper published in PNAS (doi: -
Flowers tone down petal iridescence and avoid confusing bees |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-02-26a27 Jul 2024: Iridescent flowers are never as dramatically rainbow-coloured as iridescent beetles, birds or fish, but their petals produce the perfect signal for bees, according to a new study published by Beverley -
EUSynBioS: growing networks in Synthetic Biology | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-05-11b27 Jul 2024: He comments on the session: “We are hopeful that bringing students, principal investigators, and representatives from funding bodies into the same room like this will lead to new opportunities for the -
Young Innovators Forum a success | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-11-30a27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Young Innovators Forum a success. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 30/11/2015 - 15:50. The launch of the Young Innovators' Forum (YIF) was a success. Last Wednesday, almost 100 farmers and Plant Sciences -
Beverley Glover joins the Board of Trustees at RBG Edinburgh |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-02-2727 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Beverley Glover joins the Board of Trustees at RBG Edinburgh. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 27/02/2015 - 09:26. The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment in Scotland has announced -
Crop Science Centre opens in Cambridge | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-10-0127 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 01/10/2020 - 11:59. A new Centre in Cambridge, designed to fast-track technologies to sustainably improve farmers’ yields worldwide, was launched today. ... We are excited to be opening this new Centre, which can -
CAM – working the night shift | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-07-2427 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. CAM – working the night shift. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 24/07/2015 - 09:18. A paper on Agave by Nick Owen with Howard Griffiths and Jamie Males from the Physiological Ecology group, and -
The plant that wanted to be an animal | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-05-0627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. The plant that wanted to be an animal. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 06/05/2016 - 11:48. Most of our knowledge regarding miRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression derives from studies in -
Physiological basis of crop improvement and agronomic development |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-09-1627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Physiological basis of crop improvement and agronomic development. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 26/09/2013 - 15:28. Celestin Ukozehasi has been invited to speak in Nairobi on 3rd October. You can -
CODE RED: Switching to pathogen defence | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-04-2227 Jul 2024: The new research follows on from this work and shows that the sensitivity of Rx can also be enhanced, by simply targeting a different portion of the gene. -
Groundbreaking research results in grant | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2018-11-0727 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Groundbreaking research results in grant. Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 07/11/2018 - 11:35. University of Cambridge receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for groundbreaking research in Global -
Making use of waste... | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2018-06-2527 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Making use of waste. Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 25/06/2018 - 14:28. Algae shown to grow on excess nitrates sourced from local drinking water company. Matt Davey and several other members of Alison -
Modelling offers hope for future invaders | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-05-0327 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Modelling offers hope for future invaders. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 03/05/2016 - 11:08. and colleagues have published a paper in PNAS modelling potential management of sudden oak death in -
Researchers show how plants tell the time | Department of Plant…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-10-2327 Jul 2024: This new research has shown that these sugars also play a role in circadian rhythms. -
CAM: sustainable bioenergy and resilience to climate change |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2015-05-0827 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. CAM: sustainable bioenergy and resilience to climate change. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 07/05/2015 - 13:04. Crops dedicated to bioenergy production have been widely criticised for competing with -
Can plants keep time? | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-07-02-Webb27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Can plants keep time? Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 02/07/2013 - 08:44. On Thursday 23rd May Dr Alex Webb was interviewed by The Naked Scientist on plants daily rhythms and how they affect the way -
Congratulations, Ottoline Leyser | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-05-1427 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations, Ottoline Leyser. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 14/05/2020 - 14:30. Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS has been elected as Regius Professor of Botany and she will take up the post -
Aspirin's parent and RNA silencing jointly protect plants from…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-01-2627 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Aspirin's parent and RNA silencing jointly protect plants from TMV. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 25/01/2016 - 12:46. Salicylic acid (SA: the parent compound of aspirin) is an important plant hormone -
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https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/feed27 Jul 2024: 38081 at https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk No evidence that England’s new ‘biodiversity boost’ planning policy will help birds or butterflies ... field-item even"><a -
Airborne Laser Scanning finds the tallest tree yet discovered in the…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-06-1327 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Airborne Laser Scanning finds the tallest tree yet discovered in the Tropics. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 13/06/2016 - 13:39. The Yellow Meranti stands 89.5m tall in an area of forest known as -
Bioscience boost to battle ash dieback | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/ashdieback27 Jul 2024: New computer models will help to monitor and predict the course of the disease. ... find new outbreaks efficiently; and how we know if the disease is absent from an area. -
UK institutions and Indian government sign agreement on crop science…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2016-02-2627 Jul 2024: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 24 February 2016 at the Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi between India’s Department of Biotechnology and a consortium of British ... On the foundation of this excellence we are delighted to take -
Helen Holmes wins prize | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-07-09-holmes27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Helen Holmes wins prize. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 10/07/2013 - 10:02. One of our Postgraduate students, Helen Holmes, has recently won best poster at the UK Federation of Plant Sciences -
Treetops protect forest life from global warming | Department of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-05-1527 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Treetops protect forest life from global warming. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 15/05/2020 - 14:30. The forest canopy mitigates peak summer temperatures for the understorey. When that shade disappears, -
Plants and soil microbes respond to recent warming on the Antarctic…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-09-1227 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plants and soil microbes respond to recent warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 13:54. Increases in temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula during the latter -
A “bright” new map of the bryophyte development | Department of Plant …
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/bright-new-map-bryophyte-development-027 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. A “bright” new map of the bryophyte development. ... Surveying the expression patterns of Marchantia promoters required development of new quantitative approaches. -
Dr Fernan Federici's confocal photos deemed 'extremely…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-07-11-federici27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Dr Fernan Federici's confocal photos deemed 'extremely pretty'. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 11/07/2013 - 11:31. Gizmodo's Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan has written about Fernan's confocal microscope -
Ash dieback, caused by the Chalara fungus, prompts re-evaluation of…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/ash-dieback227 Jul 2024: This new UK Plant Health Risk Register would serve to identify and prioritise pests and pathogens that pose a threat to the UK and to identify what actions must be taken -
Climate change will turn coastal Antarctica green, say scientists |…
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-05-2027 Jul 2024: This new study has found that microscopic algae also play an important role in Antarctica’s ecosystem and its carbon cycling. ... In the news. None. Find us. Contact us. Phone: 01223 333900. -
Widespread face mask use study | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2020-06-1127 Jul 2024: The new coronavirus is transmitted through airborne droplets loaded with SARS-CoV-2 particles that get exhaled by infectious people, particularly when talking, coughing or sneezing. -
Defra Careers in Science talk | Department of Plant Sciences
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-06-20-defra27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Defra Careers in Science talk. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 28/06/2013 - 09:22. On 20. th. June, Dr Robert Bradburne, Head of Science in the Sustainable Land Management and Livestock Farming team at
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