Plant and crop
Dynamic multi-national research groups unravelling plant science from the cell to whole plant level
Our internationally acclaimed plant and crop sciences research covers a wide range of areas. We have strong emphasis on unpicking the complex molecular and biochemical mechanisms that govern important agronomic traits such as plant growth and morphology, plant response environmental stresses, seed filling and fruit ripening. Our research in model plants forms part of a pipeline to transfer novel plant traits into crops. Our crop science research focusses on staple cereal crops, such as wheat and rice, vegetable crops such as brassicas and tomato, and underutilised crops such as bambara.
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Fundamental plant research
Contributing detailed understanding of plant growth, development and reproduction.
Fundamental plant research
Abiotic and biotic stress
Understanding the mechanisms controlling plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses.
Abiotic and biotic stress
Fruit and vegetable crops
Improving shelf life and nutrition of horticultural crops such as tomato and brassicas.
Fruit and vegetable crops
Cereal crops
Combining genetic, genomic and phenotyping approaches to identify novel genes to improve crops.
Cereal crops
Models to crops
Translating model plant research discoveries into new crop varieties providing solutions for agriculture.
Models to crops
Plant-soil interactions
Understanding the plant root-soil interface to improve accessibility of water and nutrients to plants.
Plant-soil interactions
Advanced imaging
State of the art imaging technologies including X-ray Computed and Laser Ablation Tomography.
Advanced imaging
Environmental physiology
Understanding how plants respond to their environment from cell to ecosystem scale.
Environmental physiology
Micronutrients
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Plant integrative biology
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