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The Department of Botany and Plant Sciences encompasses all areas of scholarship involving plant science. This includes undergraduate and graduate instruction and mentorship, fundamental and applied research, and dissemination of research-based information and technologies beyond the academic community.
As one of the largest academic departments at UCR, the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences participates in two bachelor's degree programs and offers a master's degree program in Plant Biology with two tracks, Botany or Plant Science, and Ph.D. programs in Plant Biology and Plant Genetics. The department has strong programs in basic plant cell biology, responses of plants to environmental stresses, plant ecology, genetics, genomics, and evolution. The department houses the Center for Plant Cell Biology, which is the Nation's first Research Center devoted exclusively to Plant Cell Biology.
These strengths in basic research complement applied research programs that use the traditional tools of botany and the new technologies of genomics to meet the evolving needs of California's $27 billion agricultural industry in addressing the challenges, climate change and new pest and disease by developing new varieties and crop management strategies. Cooperative Extension specialists serve as the bridges between discoveries made in the department's laboratories and greenhouses and growers who will put the new knowledge to work for such commodities as avocado, citrus, wheat, vegetable crops, turfgrass, and ornamental and urban landscape plants.
Administration Offices
Location: Batchelor Hall, 2nd Floor
Hours: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm; 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Phone: (951) 827-4619
Fax: (951) 827-4437
E-mail: bpschair@ucr.edu
Map: Campus Map (Batchelor Hall is #501)
Directions: Link to directions
Headline News
UC Riverside Geneticist Receives Highest Honor From Botanical Society of America
Norman Ellstrand, expert on plant gene flow, recognized for his outstanding contributions to botanical science
(May 14, 2009)
Norman Ellstrand is a professor of genetics in UC Riverside's Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. Photo credit: S. Clausen, UC Riverside.
RIVERSIDE, Calif.- Norman Ellstrand, a professor of genetics in UC Riverside's Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, has been elected as one of this year's four Botanical Society of America (BSA) Merit Award recipients.
The BSA Merit Award is the society's highest honor, granted for "outstanding contributions to the botanical science," recognizing truly exceptional scientists in plant biology. Some past Merit Award recipients have won the Nobel Prize, National Medal of Science or election to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.