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27 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.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 Jul 2024: The molecular changes to gene expression therefore require an amplification of pre-existing responses rather than evolution of new ones.

27 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

27 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:.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 Jul 2024: They then concluded their visit with a tour of the new teaching laboratory.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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