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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'
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- 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.
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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)
- Robert Sowden
- 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
- Dr Clement Champion
- Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi
- Dr Jaime Carrasco
- 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
- Dr Nadine Töpfer
- Serena Marner
- Andras Sandor
- Systems-based analysis of plant organ design
- Poisonous grains: how heavy metals get into rice and the ways to reduce their accumulation
- Oxford students make their way to Illinois’ research fields
- Laura Ossorio Carballo
- Aché Atta-Boateng
- Sabrina Dietz
- 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