Welcome to the Division of Plant and Crop Sciences
The Plant and Crop Sciences Division is internationally acclaimed as a centre for fundamental and applied research underpinning our understanding of agriculture, food production and quality, and the natural environment.
The Division contains the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) and plays a major part in the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB). We are located in the Plant Sciences building and also in the South Laboratory Building at the Sutton Bonington campus. Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching takes place at the University Park and Sutton Bonington campuses.
Plant and crop science researchers collaborate extensively in six structured themed areas of plant and crop science research. We also have close research and teaching links with colleagues in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham's campus in Malaysia.
Head of Plant and Crop Sciences: Graham Seymour
Deputy Head of Plant and Crop Sciences: Mike Holdsworth
Events
- Date
- 15/02/2012
- Location:
- Lecture Room 11, Sutoon Bonington Campus
- Description
- Wednesday 15th February Patrick Achard (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes) The Arabidopsis DELLA RGA-LIKE 3 has a key role in modulating plant-pathogen interactions. Lecture Room 11 Sutton Bonington campus 1 pm.
- Date
- 04 - 06/07/2012
- Description
- Plants and Crops Summer School - Feeding the World. Sutton Bonington campus 4th-6th July 2012. For Year 11 GCSE students.
Latest News
- Description
- The January issue of the Plant and Crop Sciences Newsletter is now available
- Date:
- 30/01/2012
- Description
- Read the University Press Release about a paper in Nature describing a new molecular sensor for the plant hormone auxin, with contributions from Malcolm Bennett's group.
- Date:
- 17/01/2012
- Description
- Read about a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA by researchers including Ive De Smet's group, which shows how flavonols control root growth by affecting auxin distribution.
- Date:
- 01/02/1901
Recent Publications
Read about recent publications from:-
A new molecular sensor for auxin with contributions from Malcolm Bennett's group, published in Nature,
Michael Holdsworth's group's paper in Nature on the breakthrough in the production of flood-tolerant crops,
and an all-Nottingham collaboration published in The Plant Cell about network construction on large scale data sets in Arabidopsis
Two recently published books :-
Mike Davey and Paul Anthony - Plant Cell Culture
Kevin Pyke - Plastid Biology