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Plant Sciences is once again proud to honour Prof. Enid MacRobbie ScD FRS FRSE as a pioneer of plant biophysics, the first female scientist to gain a personal Chair at Cambridge, life Fellow of Girton, and our first female Head of Department. This year’s MacRobbie Research Seminar (in our legendary pink lecture theatre)...

The University of Cambridge is offering up to 30 four-year BBSRC funded studentships starting in October 2015. A wide range of projects are available across 20 world-class departments and research institutes under the broad themes of: Agriculture and Food Security Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy Bioscience for...

By storing carbon in wood, forests currently play a key role in mitigating climate change. However, there is growing concern that as climate changes forests could shift from being a net carbon sink to a source. New research from the Coomes group published in Global Change Biology explores the consequences of climate change...

New research from the Tanentzap group that has been published in the journal Biology Letters and is featured by Science Magazine and in the 23 July issue of New Scientist . Plants host a remarkable diversity of symbiotic fungi. Some of these, such as those associated with grasses, produce secondary metabolites that are...