Plant Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK)

We have 222 Plant Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK)

China Scholarship Council: Life on the Edge: understanding how cereals surfaces respond to change

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Cereals are our primary source of calories. To safeguard our food supply, we must maintain cereal grain yields despite accelerating and more extreme temperature and drought events from climate change. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S McKim, Dr C Campoli

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

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China Scholarship Council: Using state-of-the-art genomics and genetics to clone functional disease resistance genes in potato

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Potato is the third most important food crop and consumed by over a billion people around the world. More than 375 million tonnes of potato were produced in 2021 but it’s estimated that approximately 25% are lost to diseases. Read more

Supervisors: Dr I Hein, Dr M Bayer, Dr T Adams

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

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China Scholarship Council: Feel the tension – how does S-acylation of OSCA ion channels regulate responses to environmental change in plants?

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Plants, being sessile organisms, must sense and respond to environmental change, such as temperature or drought, without being able to move. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Hemsley, Prof U Zachariae

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

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How did seed plants create male and female sexes? The evolutionary origins of heterospory

University of Birmingham School of Biosciences

Like animals, plants reproduce through having sex- namely, the fusion of haploid male and female sex cells. Although this process is superficially similar between animals and plants, the two lineages each invented it separately as a form of convergent evolution(1). Read more

Supervisors: Dr A.R.G Plackett, Dr E Sanchez-Moran

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

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Structural and Mechanistic Characterisation of Bacterial Natural Product Targets

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Natural products are a vital source of medicines and agrichemicals. For example, over 70% of the antibiotics on the World Health Organisation’s list of essential medicines are derived from natural sources (plants, bacteria or fungus). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Alkhalaf

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition 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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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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Nanoparticles for penetrating complex polysaccharide matrices – cell walls and biofilms

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Vision. To find carbon-based nanostructures that will pass through complex polysaccharide matrices to deliver drugs and/or reporters. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Gifford

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

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Integrating optimal climatic variables of cultivated plants in species distribution modelling to guide conservation initiatives for threatened conifer species. Project based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Summary. Understanding conifer species' climatic tolerance is vital for informed tree planting decisions, aiding both the forestry sector and species conservation efforts in the face of a changing climate. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Wilson, Dr K Dexter

5 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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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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Divide and conquer: Uncovering the mechanism of vacuole re-organisation during cytokinesis

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

The diversity of plant morphology is spectacular, from immense heights of the Californian redwood to the herbs found on our dining tables. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Frigerio

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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We have 222 Plant Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK)

Plant Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK)

We have 222 Plant Biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK)

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