Department of Botany & Plant Sciences

Following a decade-long effort, scientists have mapped out the genome of an aphid-like pest capable of decimating vineyards. In so doing, they have discovered how it spreads — and potentially how to stop it. The research team’s work on the...

Vanessa Perez, 21, is a Class of 2020 graduate completing a bachelor’s degree in plant biology who developed her love for plants working in her father’s backyard garden as a child. She’s researched plant varieties in the Mojave Desert, co-authored...

Elizabeth Hann, of the Jinkerson Lab, was recently selected as a 2020 Fellow for the Link Foundation Energy. Fellows receive 2 awards of $30,000 in an effort to foster education and innovation in energy production and utilization.

Founded in 1881, American Association of University Women is one of the world’s largest sources of funding for graduate women, due to the generosity and legacy of generations of AAUW members. These prestigious awards are highly competitive and selective, and...

Congratulations Jean Ae! You have been selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant for BPSC for this year! Well done!

Dr. Janet Franklin has been awarded the James J. Parsons Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in the field of biogeography from the American Association of Geographers.

A protein called phytochrome B, which can sense light and temperature, triggers plant growth and controls flowering time. How it does so is not fully understood. In a paper published in Nature Communications, a group of cell biologists led by...

Plants are not simply flowering earlier with climate change, as is often reported in the media. Instead, they are responding to the changing climate in more complex ways. The rates at which communities of plants are shifting their flowering times...

It has been described as a Noah’s Ark for citrus: two of every kind. Spread over 22 acres, UC Riverside’s 113-year-old Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection was founded as a place to gather and study as many citrus specimens as possible...

Imagine enjoying the sights and scents of a springtime stroll across the UC Riverside campus and through the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection, except you’re sitting at a desk. Wearing virtual reality goggles. And inhaling artificial aromas carefully constructed to replicate...