Undergraduate Research Projects
Undergraduate students in their final year of study at Nottingham undertake a research project, associated with an academic member of staff. Such projects are an important part of their degree and give them an opportunity to experience real hands on research in a variety of different ways. Biosciences Undergraduate Resarch at Nottingham (BURN) reports on some of these research projects and others across the School of Biosciences. Here are examples of some recent undergraduate research projects carried out in Plant and Crop Sciences.
Sustainable agriculture in the semi arid tropics: Agroforestry and the potential suitability of bamboo – Rob Purdew (published in BURN).
The multiple uses of bamboo: communicating science through a website – Elizabeth Pilliere (published in BURN).
Trichome morphogenesis and variation in distribution in mutants of tomato - Nam Nguyen
Developmental dynamics of plastids labelled with green fluorescent protein during tomato cell culture - Linda Cholerton
Molecular analysis of the green margin developmental mutant in Petunia - Lorna McAusland
Developmetal biology of amyloplasts in columella cells of young roots - Shuna Braithewaite
Functional characterisation of root apical meristem
expressed genes - Ben Coombes
