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- Phylogenomics & evolutionary diversification of legumes: more than just peas and beans
- Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi
- The role of water transport in controlling tropical forest function
- Understanding plant species' responses to climate change: the need for population and community ecology
- Extending plant defence theory to seeds: understanding how interactions of dormancy and soil microbes affect survival and coexistence
- The pervasive population genomic impacts of genome duplication, gene flow, and selection
- Evolutionary genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in flowering plants
- Toward a unified science of ecological change: advances and challenges in biodiversity and metabolic scaling
- The work of the Science and Technology Select Committee
- Beyond the single gene: NLR network mediates immunity to diverse plant pathogens
- Using ant/plant symbioses to understand cooperation among species
- Plant diversification and animal pollination: insights from the family Apocynaceae
- A deep-time perspective on macroecology
- The molecular basis of floral adaptations to plant breeding systems
- Nod factor recognition at root epidermis and its impact on microbiota assembly in Lotus japonicus
- The genetic basis for diversification of leaf form: from understanding to reconstructing
- Meiotic recombination and chromatin landscapes in plant genomes
- Invitable senescence? Biochemical and demographic perspectives on the escape of senescence
- Professor Don Ort, Departments of Crop Sciences and of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, USA.
- Progress and current challenges in engineering algal carbon concentrating mechanisms into higher plants
- Adding complexity to complexity: gene family evolution in polyploids
- Engineering Photosynthesis for Global Food Security. Why, How and Will You Let Me do it?
- Small RNAs as mobile, morphogen-like signals in development
- Carbohydrates, natural products and harmful algal blooms
- Regulation of receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling
- Rethinking Intensive Agriculture from an Ecosystem Perspective
- Species interactions, evolution and functioning in microbial communities
- Computational analysis of the productivity-potential of CAM plants
- Tobacco for health with new plant breeding techniques
- Genetic regulation of the 2D to 3D growth transition in the moss Physcomitrella patens
- Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation supports research on pollinator conservation and management at Oxford
- Professor Sir Charles Godfray CBE FRS appointed as new Director of the Martin School
- Cells protect genes more than they protect the rest of the genome
- Professors van der Hoorn, Hector, and Sweetlove named as Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics
- Plant diversity is crucial for a successful ecosystem
- Breakthrough in efforts to ‘supercharge’ rice and reduce world hunger
- Renier van der Hoorn awarded the title of Full Professor
- Professor John Mackay presenting the NDG James Memorial Lecture on 24 October 2017
- ATP sensing in living plant cells reveals tissue gradients and stress dynamics of energy physiology
- Growing better trees faster - a new research collaboration.
- New Suppressors of the Chloroplast Protein Import Mutant tic40 Reveal a Genetic Link between Protein Import and Thylakoid Biogenesis
- Professor Lee Sweetlove new Editor in Chief of the Plant Journal
- National Tree Improvement Strategy launches with Future Trees Trust
- DPhil student Jack Parsons made Cumberland Lodge Scholar
- Policing the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis: a critical test of partner choice
- DPhil Student Marcela Mendoza Suarez on New Zealand Fieldwork Experience
- "Dung Beetles Navigate By Starlight" - a conversation with Dr Sarah Watkinson on poetry inspired by science
- Dr Sandy Hetherington Awarded Magdalen Fellowship
- Treasures from the Herbaria: Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis
- Dr Stephen Harris Publishes New Book - Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum: A Brief History
- Claudia Havranek published 'food expert' in Usborne's 100 Things to Know About Food
- Interview with an illustrator & behind the scenes of 'Painting by Numbers'
- UNIQ Summer School - a glimpse of life as an Oxford student
- UNIQ Summer School in Biological Sciences - 2017 highlights
- John Wood on annual fieldwork in Boliva
- Pollination insights from the family Apocynaceae
- International Day for Women and Girls in Science
- A deep-time perspective on macroecology
- Just the tonic! Botanic Garden launches historic Physic Gin
- The role of Nod factor recognition and its impact on microbiota assembly in Lotus japonicas
- Prof Tsiantis' teachings in how to understand and reconstruct the genetic basis for diversification of leaf form
- Plants 400. A celebration and count-down to 400 years of botanical research and teaching by the University of Oxford.
- David Anderson
- Debra Ashby
- John Baker
- Caroline Benfield
- Rob Bryant
- Wendy Yeates
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- Bodleian display showcases scientific research into Bauer's botanical masterpieces
- India-UK Nitrogen Fixation Centre (IUNFC) launched on 6th October 2016
- Professors van der Hoorn, Hector, and Sweetlove named as Highly Cited Researchers by Thomson Reuters
- Global Pulse Day
- Scientists uncover genetic evidence that 'we are what we eat'
- Plant-species hotspot maps identify priority conservation areas of tropical Africa
- APFORGEN Regional Training Centre on Forest Genetic Resources opens
- Death of Lionel Clowes (1921-2016) – the discoverer of the Quiescent Centre
- Prize Winners at Graduate Symposium 2016
- John Wood awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of Saint Francis Xavier
- UNIQ Summer School in Biological Sciences 2016
- Oxford Congress on Plant Sciences 2016
- Plant Sciences Achieves Silver Green Impact Award, Rob Bryant Runner Up for Staff Award
- Scientists discover oldest plant root stem cells
- Oxford researchers discover the structure of roots that held up the first giant trees that grew on earth over 300 million years ago!
- Fascination of Plants Day 2016 Success!
- Congratulations to Professor Liam Dolan, awarded ERC funding
- Biology News: HoD letter from Professor George Ratcliffe
- The social life of plants
- Metabolic regulation in plants: ensuring flexible responses in a fluctuating environment
- Making a future from the past: Oxford University Herbaria
- New sweet potato research challenges early contact between America and Polynesia
- CANCELLED: Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene
- My earliest and latest modelling studies (optimal water use and the intersection of photorespiration and N metabolism)
- Photosynthesis in plants the key to speedy evolution
- Congratulations to Stephen Harris, awarded the title of Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences!
- Phylogenomics and evolutionary diversification of legumes – more than just peas and beans
- Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi
- Botanical Illustration: the life and workings of Rosemary Wise
- Worldwide Day of Botanical Art - interview with Rosemary Wise
- Understanding plant species' responses to climate change: why we need population and community ecology
- Plant Sciences students head-up a plastic pollution project on Aldabra Atoll
- Dr Sandy Hetherington awarded the Irene Manton Prize
- Dr Levi Yant on the pervasive population genomic impacts of genome duplication, gene flow, and selection
- Professor Stephen Harris publishes 'Sunflowers'
- Congratulations to Prof John MacKay and Dr David Boshier, awarded a Darwin Grant
- Professor Jane Langdale appointed a CBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours List
- April Burt
- Oxford Congress on Plant Sciences 2018
- Transcriptional regulation by dynamic ubiquitination
- Ecological specialisation and the assembly of networks of interacting plants and pollinators: perspectives from mass flowering communities of phenotypically generalist daisies in South African deserts
- Explosive seed dispersal
- From seed to silicon: plant collections in the 21st century
- Cytoplasmic events in early chloroplast biogenesis
- The timing and nature of early land plant evolution
- Gabriele Rizzuto
- DPhil Research Projects
- Radka Slovak awarded the Society of Experimental Biology Young Scientist award
- Professor Jane Langdale awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Science from University of Bath
- A UNIQ experience for budding biologists
- Lorna Casselton Memorial Scholarship in Plant Sciences
- Molecular penny-pinching is the key to bacterial evolution
- Emily Warner
- Seeding a new green revolution
- Allocation decisions in Arabidopsis
- Getting to the root of plant evolution
- Obituary of Dr Ian Moore
- Dr Pierre Buscaill
- A new scholarship fund for the next generation of plant scientists
- Computing a more efficient leaf using metabolic network models
- Dr Hayley Tumas
- Long, slow lives facing rapid change: Climate adaptation in conifers
- Seminar: Dr Joshua Ramsay
- Professor John MacKay appointed as Chairman for the Conifer Breeding Co-operative.
- Message from Professor George Ratcliffe
- Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene
- Evolution of plant symbioses
- Conservation of cell wall integrity sensing mechanisms in tip-growing cells
- The evolutionary significance of polyploidy
- The Social Lives of Plants
- Timing and coordination of cell type environmental response mechanisms in roots
- Serena Marner
- Andras Sandor
- Systems-based analysis of plant organ design
- Oxford students make their way to Illinois’ research fields
- Laura Ossorio Carballo
- Ben Jones
- Riccardo Soldan
- Dr Maria Dornelas kicks off the first seminar of Hilary Term
- Rachel's roots research in top ten
- April Burt 'Shines a Light' on Queen's College exhibit
- Oxford students and Seychellois volunteers team up for an epic beach-clean mission
- Scientists discover a new biochemical pathway that may aid development of more resilient crop varieties
- Discussing the evolution of plant symbioses
- Aldabra clean-up project off to roaring start
- Species loss and species restoration in plant-pollinator communities
- Creating impact for ecological research in the palm oil sector
- Monitoring cellular energy, physiology and regulation in plants
- Towards a multitrophic framework of species coexistence
- Conserving phylogenetic diversity - what does it mean, how well does it work, and who cares?
- Cre Tonks
- Plants recognize bacterial pathogens to mount effective defence responses
- Crop species as model species for ecology, wild species as model species for agronomy?
- Ashleigh Macdonald
- Brandon Ford
- Floren Scrafton
- Alex Bones
- Rose Bourdon
- Chloe Casey
- Oxford University Innovation appoints Prof Liam Dolan as new board member.
- Professor Jane Langdale appointed a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- Ash dieback is predicted to cost £15 billion in Britain
- Widening access to Oxford's botanical treasure troves
- Hardy crops to tackle food insecurity
- Dr Radka Slovak
- Dr Mariana Schuster
- Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with faeces, offering clues for future food security
- Blue Planet Movie Night
- Blue Planet Movie Night
- Engineering new rhizosphere signalling networks to produce crops that need less fertiliser
- Receptor-mediated signalling from the plant cell wall
- The search for optimality: are Rubisco inhibitors necessary?
- Mary Snow Lecture: Developmental regulation of cell patterning in grass leaves
- Unravelling transcription factor functions through integrative inference of transcriptional networks in plants
- Evolution of buzz pollination
- Organelle dynamics: tales of motors and tethers
- Tara Oceans: Eco-systems biology at planetary scale
- Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis
- Giving to Plant Sciences
- Supporting our research and graduate students
- University of Oxford Herbaria
- Undergraduate travel bursaries
- Some thoughts on the recent fires in South America
- Norwegian Wood: Comparing native reforestation in Norway and Scotland
- 25 years of Oxford Plant Systematics Newsletters
- Revealing the riches of data held in natural history collections
- What’s the story, morning glory? Overhauling plant taxonomy via monographic studies
- Julianna Isabelle Olivia Piat
- Tin Hang (Henry) Hung
- Professor Klaas Vandepoele presents a novel supervised learning approach that predicts transcription factor functions
- New appointments at the Department of Zoology and the Department of Plant Sciences
- Biology undergrad’s expedition to Sarawak
- Ben Sheldon, Andy Hector, and Oli Pybus named as Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics
- Letter from Head of Department - Michaelmas newsletter
- Rice to feed the world given a funding boost
- Rona Costello
- Re-engineering photoprotection to improve crop productivity: Models, Measurements and Serendipity
- Exploring new ways of improving carotenoid contents in plants: a route to El Dorado
- Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning
- Evolutionary transitions in plant sexual systems
- Ecophysiology of photosynthesis: expanding towards geographical, phylogenetic and commercial directions
- Controlling endophytic nitrogen fixation with engineered signalling // Form and function of the dandelion fruit
- POSTPONED: Long-distance transport of gibberellins in plants
- Plant-fungal dialogue at the heart of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
- How aphids induce plant galls
- Digitisation: Beyond the Sciences
- Dr Timothy Haskett
- Dr Francesco Licausi
- LGBTQ+ 101
- LGBTQ+ In Stem: An Introduction
- CANCELLED: Evolutionary Biology and Homosexual Behaviour
- Biology LGBTQ+ Society - First Meeting
- Branching out for a new green revolution
- Remaining Plant Sciences greenhouse lights replaced
- Two top wins for Biology at MPLS Impact Awards ceremony
- Christian Norton
- Tatiana Spatola Rossi
- Felix Homma
- George Dobson
- Aldabra clean-up team meet with local primary students
- Dr Madeleine Seale
- A Monograph of Ipomoea
- Modern day monographs and Ipomoea
- Getting to the root of the global food crisis
- Mass flowering of Morning Glories after fire
- Unearthing the complex evolutionary origins of root branching
- Hardly an overnight success: 100 years to discover plant species
- Professor Jane Langdale admitted as a Corresponding Member to the Australian Academy of Science
- Garden Safari: The Bug Five! Watch more Back Garden Biology with Dr Lindsay Turnbull
- Changing plant chloroplasts to improve crop performance
- Dr Pablo Muñoz Rodríguez awarded the very first CETAF E-SCoRe Award
- Science for children at home
- Plants: the known unknowns which are undermining conservation
- Healthy soil bacteria for healthy crops
- Oxford teams up with The Royal Horticultural Society to develop innovative plant data management
- Millions of dollars needed to clean up tuna nets and flip flops from one small island state
- Protoporphyrin, one ring to rule them all
- Microtubule self-organization, cell division, and the evolution of land plants
- Mechanisms and Models of Leaf Form and Function
- Long-distance transport of gibberellins in plants
- Humans and the re-wiring of ecological landscapes
- Force, form and function - Morphogenesis and structure of the plant leaf epidermis
- Orchestrating development from the single cell perspective
- Causes and consequences of lineage divergence in campions (Silene)
- Corinna Hartinger
- Laura Guillardin Calvo
- Dr Xinyu Zhang
- Dr Florian Hahn
- Dr Julia Lambret Frotte
- Dr Raphael Ledermann
- Javier Pardo-Diaz
- Dr Isidro Abreu
- James Wisker
- Dr Philippe V. Jutras
- Patrick Green
- Dr Sovanna Tan
- Equality & Diversity
- Barley Rose Collier Harris
- Oxygen-sensing mechanisms across eukaryotic kingdoms and their roles in complex multicellularity
- CANCELLED - Scaling plant responses to disturbances in the Anthropocene: from individuals, to populations, to ecosystem services.
- Professor Alexandre Antonelli
- Engineering drought-resistant crops with Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis
- Jacques Bouvier
- Radford Scholarship in Plant Sciences in conjunction with Worcester College
- Dr Ronelle Roth
- Plant Sciences to offer a Radford Scholarship for DPhil study into improving crop yields
- Alumni Newsletter - Letter from HoD
- Rosemary Wise awarded Engler Medal in Silver
- BIPOC STEM network launches
- Biological science alumnus founds ecological restoration charity
- Martin Hurajt
- Lorraine Hogg
- Becci James
- Sam Gannon
- Tamara Feltrin
- Sarah King
- ERC Consolidator Grant success for Dr Francesco Licausi
- Philippa Sinclair
- Dr Lauren Chappell
- Anya Lindstrom Battle
- Carolin Schulte
- Dr Sanu Shameer
- Zoe Weeks
- Dr Chiara Perico
- Global warming may increase plant mutation rates
- Dr Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez elected as President of the Systematics Association
- Alice Godson
- Clare Cocker
- Application of Genetic Modification and Genome Editing for Improvement of Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Crops
- Is auxin important for apical stem cells or their offspring in early diverging land plants?
- Plant cell polarity far and wide
- Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
- Seeing The Light: Plant Color Vision and Developmental Acclimation
- An NGS-based strategy for early stages of breeding programs in hybridizing woody plant species: cork oak as a case study
- Interactions of terrestrial orchids with their mycorrhizal fungi
- Exploiting diversity in plant innate immunity to protect against bacterial pathogens
- Dr Hilary Hunt
- Ryan Veryard
- Dr Liang Xu
- Dr Waly Adwy
- Darwin, Descent, & 'Hideous Sexual Criminality': A Talk for LGBT+ History Month
- Dr Maricris Zaidem
- Dr Nichola Austen
- Dr Jaypal Darbar
- Helene Augar
- Gregory Fitzek
- Isobel Dodds
- Tom Wells
- Dr Jaime Carrasco
- James Sturgess
- Professor Renier van der Hoorn awarded grant from the European Research Council
- Pea plants make smart investment decisions that could help inform sustainable agriculture
- Breaking Barriers in Biology
- Imitating to understand: a synthetic biology approach to studying oxygen sensing
- Alumni Newsletter - Letter from HoD
- The physical properties that shape plant cells
- Determining the rules for self-organised adaptive biological networks
- Dr Sergio Iacopino
- Oxford scientists discover how to alter colour and ripening rates of tomatoes
- Liam Dolan appointed Queen’s Trustee at Kew
- Botanists name astonishing new species of ‘fairy lantern’ from Malaysian rainforests
- Latest OxLEP-backed Local Growth Fund project is completed and set to have major impact on agricultural and forestry sectors
- Restoring forest biodiversity in the Scottish Highlands
- Plants400: Celebrating a Renaissance for Plant Sciences
- How do rhizobia bacteria provide ammonia to legumes?
- SUMO wrestles with photosynthesis in plant chloroplasts
- Felix Homma
- Alumni Newsletter: HoD letter from Mark Fricker
- Fernanda Miyuki Kashiwagi
- Dr Jani R. Bolla
- Vinay Shukla
- Student start-up CyanoCapture is a winner in $5m XPRIZE for carbon removal projects
- Frances Hale
- In Remembrance of Sir Martin Wood
- Jack Common
- Isabel Riddy
- Monica Gujral
- In Remembrance of Professor Jeff Burley
- Unlocking the mechanical secrets of giant Amazonian waterlilies
- Daniel Smith
- Megan Harvey
- Much more room for mushrooms: placing fungi at the heart of sustainability
- Monica Perri
- Developing crops that make their own fertilizer
- Abir Hossain Patwary
- Dandelions use water to open and close their seed parachutes
- Oxford plant scientists welcome Genetic Technology Bill