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Pete Carey has spent two weeks in the mountains of Vyots Dzor in Armenia collecting plants of a restricted range species, Potentilla porphyrantha. They have been working on a site that is due to be mined in the coming years. The plants are being translocated to a new glasshouse that they have built at Sevan in one of three...

On the 25 th of July, fifteen 6 th form students selected from sevens schools across East Anglia were invited to spend the day at University of Cambridge to learn about algae research and biotechnology. The event was hosted by PhD students Anthony Riseley , Dept of Biochemistry and Johan Ulrich Kudahl , Dept of Plant...

A paper on Agave by Nick Owen with Howard Griffiths and Jamie Males from the Physiological Ecology group , and collaborators from Teagasc (Ireland) and Tequila Sauza (Mexico) has been published in Plant Cell and Environment (doi: 10.1111/pce.12610 ). Eddy covariance methodology was used to measure ecosystem-scale mass (CO...

The Department’s ongoing work on developing LED lighting for use in plant growth research has been shortlisted for a national award. Using LEDs in plant growth rooms and algal incubator shakers has huge potential for reducing energy consumption of the university. Over the past few years, with backing from the University’s...