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Department of Plant Sciences

 

The projects are organised into Departmental Research Group and title.

Potential applicants should always approach the potential supervisor/head of group in the first instance to discuss eligibility.

Please note this page is updated regularly.

Title
Brockington Group: Defining the Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying a Novel Eukaryotic Gene Cluster
Brockington Group: Understanding the Rules of Convergent Evolution
Brockington Group: Why Do Plants Accumulate Animal-type Neurotransmitters?
Carr Group: Dicistroviruses: potential natural biocontrol agents against pest insects carried by bees?
Carr Group: Disrupting aphid-mediated transmission of cucumber mosaic virus
Coomes Group: *Priority CASE Project* Restoring Scotland’s Native Woodlands: Understanding Benefits and Constraints Using the Cairngorms Connect Landscape Restoration Project
Coomes Group: Passive Rewilding the Woodlands in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
Coomes Group: Will Forests Be Effective Nature-based Solutions as the World’s Climate Changes?
Cunniffe Group: Optimising Landscape Scale Control of Plant Disease
Derevnina Group: Mechanisms of suppression of NLR-mediated immunity by potato cyst nematodes
Edwards Group: Detecting the expansion and intensity of selective logging across the tropics
Edwards Group: Impacts of forest restoration on Andean orchid conservation
Glover Group: How to Trick a Fly - Evo-devo of petal spots and their role in speciation
Glover Group: Spurring evolution: understanding the development and diversification of nectar spurs
Harris Group: Epigenome engineering: priming chromatin for pathogen resistance
Harris Group: Readers of the ‘histone code’: the missing link in triggering gene activity
Henderson Group: Exploring the centromere paradox in Arabidopsis
Henderson Group: Mapping and Remodeling the Recombination Landscape in Chlamydomonas
Henderson Group: Understanding interactions between genetic diversity and recombination in plant genomes
Henderson Group: Unlocking recombination in plant genomes via epigenetic modification
Hibberd Group: Akaya PhD Project
Hibberd Group: The evolution of C4 photosynthesis gene expression
Hibberd Group: The role of Myb-related transcription factors in chloroplast development.
Kromdijk Group: Deciphering regulation of photoprotection using PsbS sequence diversity across the green lineage.
Kromdijk Group: Increasing crop water use efficiency via altered regulation of stomatal conductance
Patron Group: Discovery and engineering of bioactive terpenoids
Patron Group: Reprogramming Plant Responses to Nitrate
Pellegrini Group: Carbon sequestration potential in agricultural lands
Pellegrini Group: Resilience of drylands to disturbance regimes
Pellegrini Group: Wildfire resilience of coniferous forests
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: Genetics of awn development and evolution in the grasses
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Bartlett Group: The developmental genetics of floral sexuality in maize
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Robinson Group: How do plants respond to mechanical stress?
Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) Schornack Group: Transcription factor coordination of liverwort responses to oomycete infections
Webb Group: Engineering the internal and external environment of leafy crops to enhance indoor growth and provide food for space exploration
Webb Group: Mechanism controlling the propagation of Ca2+ signals in plants
Webb Group: The circadian clock as a regulator of yield traits in wheat
Webb Group: The mechanisms of circadian gating of signalling
Yelina Group: Interrogating Crossover Recombination via Chromosome Engineering
Yelina Group: Understanding the mechanisms of crossover recombination control