Molecular Plant Biology

Plants are at the base of almost all the Earth’s food webs. Their ability to harvest light energy using chlorophyll and assimilate carbon dioxide into sugars is a process that provides energy to sustain organisms across the world.

Plants show remarkable adaptations to light, heat, drought, and stress, allowing them to colonise almost all available habitats on our planet: from the oceans to most of the land’s surface. They also exhibit enormous diversity, from single-celled algae to ferns and complex seed plants.

Our research explores the regulation of photosynthesis, plant metabolism, how roots absorb nutrients, and other underlying growth mechanisms, and how plants respond to stress, pathogens, and the impact of climate change.