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Dr Min-Yao Jhu , Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sustainable Crop Nutrition group at the Crop Science Centre (CSC), has published a review exploring how plants adaptively reuse core developmental pathways to build highly specialised organs during both mutualistic and parasitic interactions. The review, ' From hosts...

Studying Plant Sciences at Cambridge can open up a wealth of career opportunities. In this series, we hear from Plant Sciences alumni about their experiences of studying here, how it shaped their careers and what they are doing now. If you would like your alumni story featured, please email us at alumni@plantsci.cam.ac.uk...

Congratulations to Julian Hibberd , Professor of Photosynthesis and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society , the UK’s national academy of sciences. Professor Hibberd’s election is in recognition of his work on C4 photosynthesis. His...

The Postdoc Innovation Awards were launched in 2024 to fund innovations by Postdoctoral researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences. Two projects were funded as part of the pilot, and here Unnati Sonawala talks about her project 'Optimizing a high-throughput screen for nematode effector genes in tomato root protoplasts...