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plant biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

We have 35 plant biology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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Unravelling the mechanisms behind plant stress sensing

University of Oxford Department of Biology
Agricultural production and food security are severely threatened by the loss of arable land and climate change, with increasingly harsher droughts, floods, and heat waves reducing crop productivity by more than 50%. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Bolla, Dr EBG Baena-Gonzalez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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BOOSTING C4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS BY ALTERING PEP CARBOXYLASE

Western Sydney University Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
ABOUT THE PROJECT. The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) is offering a research scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work within a research group addressing how to improve the primary carboxylase of C4 photosynthesis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr RS Sharwood
 30 April 2024  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the soil microbiome under controlled light conditions

University of Greenwich Faculty of Engineering and Science
Our research group is working within a consortium that is testing semi-transparent solar installations on crop growth-houses, to enhance biological and financial resilience in protected farming. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C.V.S. Supamaniam, Dr E Thompson
 24 June 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of adaptation of soft fruit to low light – towards indoor cultivation of soft fruits

The James Hutton Institute Postgraduate Training
About the project. We have an exciting opportunity for a PhD student to explore the role of natural variation within soft fruit germplasm for the optimization of traits for total controlled environment agriculture (TCEA). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Hancock, Dr G Toledo-Ortiz, Prof J Jones
 28 June 2024  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Engineering plant microbiome PhD: Exploring and engineering the plant microbiome for increased resilience

Durham University Department of Engineering
Title. Exploring and engineering the plant microbiome for increased resilience. Project Description. Plants are impacted by numerous abiotic and biotic factors above and below ground, such as nutrient availability, local climatic conditions, and the surrounding fauna. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Keating
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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in Multiscale Modelling for Risk-averse Optimisation and Control of Plant-based Fermented Food Production.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit
About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof JVI VAN IMPE, Dr IOM Otero-Muras
 30 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mitigating the impact of environmental stress on the quality and sustainability of malting barley

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society
Climate change is challenging our ability to reliably grow crops. This PhD will be focused on the impact this is having on our capacity to produce a sustainable supply of malted barley for use within the brewing and distilling industries. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Alexander
 30 April 2024  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in the design of Information Extraction Tools to characterise molecules produced or degraded by microbes and applications to plant-fermented food ecosystems.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit
About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr RB Bossy, Dr BN Nagy, Dr LV Vidács, Dr CN Nédellec, Dr SD Derozier, Dr HC Chiapello
 15 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in integrative bioinformatics and systems biology - From sequence to strain-specific phenotypes.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit
About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof BT Teusink, Dr DM Molenaar, Prof DR Remondini
 15 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Structure-function analysis of a plant virus RNA transport protein

The James Hutton Institute Postgraduate Training
Background. Plants form the basis of human nutrition but crop yields are increasingly under threat from climate change and the associated shifts in pathogen distributions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Tilsner, Dr J Bos
 14 June 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in Food Microbiology - Omics-driven investigation of unique features of olive fermentation isolates beneficial for plant fermentation with probiotic properties.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit
About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr KA Karatzas, Dr MWB Wells-Bennik, Dr MD Dasenaki, Prof VV Valdramidis
 15 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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FAIROmics - PhD fellowship in identifying and controlling of key regulatory mechanisms for differential responses and metabolic shifts in microorganism populations.

INRAE Inrae - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering Research Unit
About the Project. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits, as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr IOM Otero-Muras, Prof CT Trelea, Assoc Prof EB Bernuau
 15 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Genetics of flowering shoot temperature responses in plants

Durham University Department of Biosciences
The shape of plants is shaped by both genetics and environment; changes in response to temperature can be the most dramatic of all. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Hepworth
 3 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Plant adaptation to low oxygen conditions

University of Oxford Department of Biology
In plants, cells are exposed to varying oxygen (O. 2. ) concentrations due to changes in environmental availability, metabolic activity, and organ anatomy (Weits et al., 20201; Loreti and Perata, 20202). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof F Licausi
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Investigation of RNA secondary structure in plant transposable elements

Durham University Department of Biosciences
Transposable elements (TEs), often referred to as jumping genes, are mobile genetic elements that can be found ubiquitously across the tree of life. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Cho
 17 May 2024  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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