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The Department's Crop Science Centre has recieved funding to deliver a new doctoral training programme in sustainable agricultural innovation as part of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Collaborative Training Partnerships scheme. The new four-year postgraduate training programme is designed to...

The Department's Jiefeng Tan has been awarded the British Society for Plant Pathology 's 2021 prize for best undergraduate research in plant pathology. To celebrate 40 years of supporting the plant pathology community, the BSPP has this year brought in a new set of prizes for final year undergraduate students. These prizes...

A new study by our researchers in collaboration with researchers in the Sainsbury Laboratory shows flowers are employing a materials science phenomenon typically associated with failures in structural engineering to produce exquisite three-dimensional petal patterns to lure pollinators. In civil engineering “buckling” is a...

The rise and fall of Earth’s land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, a new study by researchers in the Department has found, with new species evolving at higher rates where the land has risen most. The Department's Dr Andrew Tanentzap , Head of the Ecosystems and Global...