This year we're celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

The fourth of our monthly stories is 'Epigenetics in Agriculture: Unlocking Nature's Code for Healthier Crops' by Jake Harris

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. I remember watching this event on the news as a kid. The liberation of Europeans from the oppression of fascism took over 50 years until Portugal, Spain, Greece and Turkey were free in the 70s and 80s.

I open twitter this morning and see that our latest manuscript is available to read. I should not be surprised because I uploaded it on Friday. We discover that GIGANTEA is required for circadian clocks to work in wheat

Listen to Jen Bromley CSO Vertical Future
And lead of our joint grant to grow crops in space describing the project bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'We regret to inform you that despite the high quality of your study/proposal it has not been possible.....'

For people who enjoyed the finest live football score commentary. What a brilliant title

A very exciting day for Department of Plant Sciences . Today we announce a joint venture with RIKEN. Read more below.

This is very sad. A genuinely world class institution.

This year we're celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first Professor of Botany at #Cambridge

The third of our monthly stories is Know your enemy: discovery-driven sustainable solutions to plant-nematode interactions, by Sebastian Eves-van den Akker 🌱🪱

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Interview with our wonderful Leonie Department of Plant Sciences

Our Dean wants to recruit a bunch of superstars (or emerging superstars) in ANY area of research broadly aligned with the Faculty of Science. Personally, want that to include (plant) biologists.

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Cool paper about the continuing evolution of one of the most important enzymes in the planet

Job alert! We are looking for a technician (full-time or part-time) to join our lab and work on our new projects to engineer plant gene regulatory networks and metabolism. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45453/
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Dr Breagha Magill examined by Kromdijk Lab and Andrés Romanowski 🕗🌱〰🇦🇷🇳🇱 thank you examiners! Well done Breagha, soon to be part of the Somers lab in Ohio. Breagha and I did not meet for the first year of her PhD due to COVID!

Editors of Frontiers journals are in a strong position to take a collective stand right now. When these journals started they had value with effective peer review. The brand has become a joke. Either Frontiers makes a radical change in approach or there should be mass resignation

Two continuing (tenure track) T&R positions in genomics! One computational, one functional. Looking for applicants working on plants, microbes, insects or vertebrates. Appointee from Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) to Associate Prof. University of Melbourne BioSciences UniMelb
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We at Department of Plant Sciences are always proud of Merlin Sheldrake but particularly impressed by his contribution to the debate here. Great ambassador for the fungi.

What a sad list of plant science research institute closures in the UK this millennium. Constantly as plant scientists we have to fight to remain as a discipline and to be recognised for our contribution to well-being and excellent biological research.