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Professor David Coomes, Head of the Department's Forest Ecology and Conservation Research Group and Director of the Conservation Research Institute , has been awarded £10 million in funding by NERC to create a new Centre for Landscape Regeneration in collaboration with Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Conservation Initiative...

Researchers from the Department have found a novel way to combine two species of grass-like plants, including banana, rice and wheat, using embryonic tissue from their seeds. The technique allows beneficial characteristics, such as disease resistance or stress tolerance, to be added to the plants. Grafting is the technique...

Plant cell walls are made of cellulose fibres laid down on top of each other like plywood. In many cells, each layer is laid down with a twist from the one before, but why? By measuring the properties of individual cells in the metallic fruit of the marble berry, Pollia condensata , researchers at the University, including...

A wheat rust early warning system developed by the Department’s Epidemiology and Modelling Group in collaboration with the Met Office, CIMMYT, EIAR and ATA has been presented at COP26 . Held in Glasgow, this year’s United Nations annual climate change summit is focused on the effects of climate change, including its impact...