crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

4 Year DPhil/PhD - Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership

University of Oxford BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP

Candidates are invited to apply to the Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) programme. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only) BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership

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Regenerative farming systems for potato production (Ref: CTP-SAI-052)

NIAB Research

Our soils will have to play an important role in avoiding catastrophic climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and they must also mitigate the effects of climate change that is already determined by historic emissions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Misiewicz, Prof J Monaghan, Dr E Dickin, Dr S Slack, Dr S McWilliam

7 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Sequencing seeds for the future: development of tools for efficient utilisation of crop genetic diversity

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Global food security if facing multiple threats from climate change, population growth and the need to adopt farming methods that use fewer inputs such as irrigation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Allender

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Are soils really regenerated by crop mixtures?

Aberdeen University School of Biological Sciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Compared to monocultures, the enhanced biodiversity of crop mixtures can improve the sustainability of agricultural systems. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Hallett, Prof M Emmerson

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Integration of environmental signals in plants

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Plants use a diversity of signals from the environment to make decisions during their life cycle. This project will focus on understanding how multiple signals from the environment are integrated to control seed dormancy. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Bassel

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Assessment and engineering of the Brassica self-incompatibility locus to enhance seed production

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Genetic diversity enables species to adapt to changing environments. If a plant produces pollen that fertilises its own stigma, a process known as self-pollination, the resulting progeny will lose genetic diversity and could become inbred and thus less competitive. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Teakle

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Genomics-driven exploitation of aphid-killing bacteria as a source of novel biopesticides

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Aphids are major insect pests of agriculture and horticulture, causing damage to many economically important crop plants through direct feeding and/or as efficient vectors of numerous plant viruses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Rabiey

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Choreographing plant disease; pathogen effector manipulation of organelles – the view from inside

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Biotic stress contributes disproportionately to crop losses, accounting for in excess of 25% of global yield. Thus, developing novel approaches to restricting pathogen infections of crops and consequently improving yields must be a key future objective for food security. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Grant

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Data-informed modelling of aerosol resuspension under aerodynamic loads

University of Bristol Chemistry

Applications are invited for a 4 year PhD studentship starting in September 2023 as part of the EPSRC CDT in Aerosol Science. PhD project context. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Gambaruto, Dr K Aplin, Dr N Zang

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Role of 3D Chromatin Configuration on Environmental Memory

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Living creatures depend on signals from their surroundings to navigate the various stages of their lives. Yet, the ever-changing nature of these environmental cues poses a significant challenge in precisely timing critical life decisions. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Gutierrez-Marcos

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Determining how phosphorylation drives functional protein interactions

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Phosphorylation is one of the most highly studied posttranslational modifications, due to its fundamental importance in regulating protein function, interactions, subcellular localisation, and turnover. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Jones, Dr P Stansfeld

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Cryo-electron microscopy of plant clathrin cages

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Endocytosis via clathrin coated vesicles is a process fundamental to eukaryotic cell health and vitality, and the core proteins as well as the beautiful geometry of clathrin cages are highly conserved. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Smith

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Clock-watchER: Circadian coordination of the plant endoplasmic reticulum

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

The rotation of the Earth creates periodic day-night changes in environmental conditions such as light and temperature. Organisms are able to adapt to these predictable diurnal cycles through their internal timekeeping system, the circadian clock, which has a periodicity of approximately 24 hours. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Breeze

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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BBSRC NLD Doctoral Training Partnership: New SIM PROTACs for Targeted Protein Degradation in Plants

Durham University Department of Chemistry

With the global population predicted to exceed 9 billion by 2050 coupled with the loss of agricultural land to urbanisation and climate change growing sufficient food represents a major current and future challenge. Read more

Supervisors: Prof SL Cobb, Prof A Sadanandom, Prof P Steel, Prof B Whittingham

15 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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CTP-SAI four-year studentships for October 2024

NIAB

The UKRI and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has awarded a Collaborative Training Partnership (CTP) grant to a consortium led by G's Growers Ltd. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) 4 Year PhD Programme

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We have 100 crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 100 crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

4 Year DPhil/PhD - Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership

Regenerative farming systems for potato production (Ref: CTP-SAI-052)

Sequencing seeds for the future: development of tools for efficient utilisation of crop genetic diversity

QUADRAT DTP: Are soils really regenerated by crop mixtures?

Integration of environmental signals in plants

Assessment and engineering of the Brassica self-incompatibility locus to enhance seed production

Genomics-driven exploitation of aphid-killing bacteria as a source of novel biopesticides

Choreographing plant disease; pathogen effector manipulation of organelles – the view from inside

Data-informed modelling of aerosol resuspension under aerodynamic loads

Role of 3D Chromatin Configuration on Environmental Memory

Determining how phosphorylation drives functional protein interactions

Cryo-electron microscopy of plant clathrin cages

Clock-watchER: Circadian coordination of the plant endoplasmic reticulum

BBSRC NLD Doctoral Training Partnership: New SIM PROTACs for Targeted Protein Degradation in Plants

CTP-SAI four-year studentships for October 2024

We have 100 crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 100 crop science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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