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  • Developmental Biology

Cereal Symbiosis

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Chromatin and Memory

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Circadian Signal Transduction

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Crop Breeding Technologies

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Crop Pathogen Immunity

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Crop Resilience

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Ecosystem and Carbon Science

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Ecosystems and Global Change

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Environmental Plant Physiology

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Epidemiology and Modelling

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Evolution and Development

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Evolution and Diversity

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Forest Ecology and Conservation

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Gene Expression

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Methods used by the group

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  • Sequence data
  • PTV: a tobravirus vector
  • VIGS protocol (pgR106/7)
  • Suppressors of gene silencing
  • Induction of systemic GFP gene silencing by Agrobacterium
  • Small RNA Cloning Procedure

PVX expression vectors

  • PVX expression vectors overview
  • Methods
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Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants

  • Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants overview
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Global Change Ecology

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Global Coastal Wetlands

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Legume Crop Resilience and Quality

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Molecular Physiology

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Physiological Ecology

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Plant Metabolism

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Plant Molecular Engineering

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Plant Physiology and Symbiosis

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Plant-Parasite Interactions

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Quantitative Plant Health

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Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth

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Transport

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Tropical ecology and conservation

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Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology

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Research stories

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  • Beneficial microbes: a blueprint for sustainable agriculture
  • Understanding how wheat measures the days and the seasons
  • Sustainable solutions to plant-nematode interactions
  • How petal surfaces impact pollinator behaviour
  • Unlocking nature's code for healthier crops
  • Protecting the world’s timber supplies
  • Exploring genetic and epigenetic structures of plant genomes
  • Unlocking cellular decision making
  • Improving crop yield through enhanced photosynthesis
  • Dodging a silver bullet: preventing infectious disease
  • Investigating the genetic basis of plant bioactives
  • Reclaiming marginal agricultural lands for nature recovery
  • Sex in plants – the contributions of Bradley and Thomas Fairchild

Undergraduate

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  • Part IB Plant and microbial sciences
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Impact

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  • Algal Innovation Centre
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  • Plants @ Cambridge
  • Plants @ Cambridge Botanicon 3 July 2026

Support Plant Sciences

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Plant Sciences field course fund

  • Plant Sciences field course fund overview
  • Tropical field course for Ecology: Angie's story
  • Easter field courses: fun and fascinating
  • Tropical field course for Ecology: Dan's story
  • Tropical field course for Ecology: Sudina's story
  • Plant and Microbial Sciences field course: Sofia's story

Tom ap Rees fund

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