Plant and Crop Sciences
Welcome to the homepage of the Plant and Crop Sciences Division in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham. The Plant and Crop Sciences Division is internationally acclaimed as a centre of excellence 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 and plays a major part in the new Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB). We are located in a new 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 Crop-Plant Science research.
An article detailing the wide range of Plant and Crop Sciences research that takes place across the whole of the University of Nottingham is to be published in GARnish, the newsletter of GARnet. Read it here as well.
Plant and Crop scientists at Nottingham 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 Division: Jerry Roberts
Director of Plant Sciences: Colin Black
Director of Crop Sciences: Mike Holdsworth
News
Nottingham scientists lead two out of 12 large interdisciplinary projects recently funded by the ERANET-Plant Genomics pan-EU agency. The vSEED project led by Professor Mike Holdsworth (Euro1.7M) will aim to provide a mathematical model of seed dormancy and germination, and the TOMQML project ( Euro 1.7M), led by Professor Graham Seymour aims to identify genes underlying tomato quantitative trait loci (QTL) that influence fruit quality.
Read about recent major publications from Mike Holdsworth's group on seed germination and Jerry Roberts' group on plant senescence here.
PLANT AND CROP SCIENCES SEMINARS
Rheinhardt Stoger (Nottingham) Epigenetics, environment and phenotypic plasticity
25th November 1 pm
Lecture Room 11, Plant Sciences Building.
Malcolm Bennett has been awarded a BBSRC Professorial Fellowship for five years to study the genetic control of root architecture. See the July Newsletter for more details.
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