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Department of Plant Sciences

 

The projects are organised into Departmental Research Group and title.

Potential applicants should always approach the potential supervisor/head of group in the first instance to discuss eligibility.

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Title
Brockington Group: Defining the Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying a Novel Eukaryotic Gene Cluster
Brockington Group: Understanding the Rules of Convergent Evolution
Brockington Group: Why Do Plants Accumulate Animal-type Neurotransmitters?
Carr Group: Disrupting aphid-mediated transmission of cucumber mosaic virus
Carr Group:Understanding the effects on abiotic stress of mutualistic viruses of plants
Cunniffe Group: Optimising Landscape Scale Control of Plant Disease
Derevnina Group: Decoding Sensor-Helper NLR communication mechanisms
Edwards Group: Biodiversity benefits of restoration in sub-Saharan Africa
Edwards Group: Forecasting climate change impacts on Andean endemics and microendemics
Eves-van den Akker Group: Effectostimulins: plant-derived molecules which stimulate pathogen infection.
Eves-van den Akker Group: How and why organisms edit their own genomes: the novel case of plant-parasitic HYP effectors
Glover Group: How to Trick a Fly - Evo-devo of petal spots and their role in speciation
Glover Group: Spurring evolution: understanding the development and diversification of nectar spurs
Henderson Group: Exploring the centromere paradox in Arabidopsis
Henderson Group: Mapping and Remodeling the Recombination Landscape in Chlamydomonas
Henderson Group: Understanding interactions between genetic diversity and recombination in plant genomes
Henderson Group: Unlocking recombination in plant genomes via epigenetic modification
Hibberd Group: The evolution of C4 photosynthesis gene expression
Hibberd Group: The role of Myb-related transcription factors in chloroplast development.
Kromdijk Group: Deciphering regulation of photoprotection using PsbS sequence diversity across the green lineage.
Kromdijk Group: Increasing crop water use efficiency via altered regulation of stomatal conductance
Patron Group: Biosynthesis of plant terpenoids
Patron Group: Engineering gene regulatory networks for crop disease-resistance
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: Defining and transforming the molecular and morphological landscape of developmental phase change in grasses
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: The development and evolution of floral diversity
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Structure and function of mycorrhizal fungi effector proteins
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Transcription factor coordination of liverwort responses to oomycete infections
Warsame Group: Decoding transcriptional dynamics underlying drought stress responses in cowpea
Warsame Group: Quality under stress: How drought stress affects the nutritional quality of legume seeds
Warsame Group: Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Drought Tolerance in Cowpea
Webb Group: Engineering the internal and external environment of leafy crops to enhance indoor growth and provide food for space exploration
Webb Group: How TLWD proteins form the spindle at the centre of circadian clocks.
Webb Group: Mechanism controlling the propagation of Ca2+ signals in plants
Webb Group: The circadian clock as a regulator of yield traits in wheat
Webb Group: The mechanisms of circadian gating of signalling
Webb Group: Time-restricted photosynthesis to regulate growth