Plant biology is key to the future prosperity of the human population. In the same way that basic medical researchers seek clinical solutions to fundamental challenges in human health care, as plant ...

Welcome to Purdue’s home for basic plant biology! The CPB community connects faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the plant sciences across different departments and ...

The approaches and instrumentation used by plant cell biologists provides much of the foundation necessary for chemical biology, and increased funding of basic research in plant cell biology will ...

The Ph.D. program in Plant Biology provides training in basic scientific research in diverse aspects of plant biology, including developmental genetics, molecular regulation of gene expression, cell ...

Since plant biology is an important basic science that affects all of us, individuals pursuing careers in the plant sciences generally experience great satisfaction from working in areas that ...

WHAT IS THE PURDUE CENTER FOR PLANT BIOLOGY (CPB)? Plants have been at the center of some of the most basic and important discoveries in all of biology. Here at the CPB, we are committed to gaining a ...

The plant science major applies the principles of biology, chemistry, and agriculture to plant life ... learning how soils form and interpretation of basic soil properties. Instructors share knowledge ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

Since plant biology is an important basic science that affects all of us, individuals pursuing careers in the plant sciences generally experience great satisfaction from working in areas that ...

the bulk of the funding from the Department of Agriculture has not gone to competitive basic research and the Biology Directorate program at the National Science Foundation is relatively small, with ...