Department of Botany & Plant Sciences

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...

The message at UC Riverside’s Citrus Day for the Industry event was clear: Huanglongbing poses an existential threat to California citrus growers but the defenses are holding and scientists will find better weapons. Over 200 people from the citrus industry...

Ecologist Exequiel Ezcurra Receives AAAS Science Diplomacy Award Exequiel Ezcurra, pictured at the Sea of Cortez, is honored in part for his work in service of environmental protection at the U.S.-Mexico border. | Nancy Packard-Burnett Exequiel Ezcurra, pictured at the...

In 2018, top scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in Washington, D.C. to talk about how climate change can affect terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems, often in interaction with other factors. Janet Franklin, a distinguished professor...