Research at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Research at the department focuses on plants, animals, soil and microorganisms – from molecules through organisms to populations and anthropogenic ecosystems. It is our vision to maintain and develop our position as one of the principle centres for plant biology based on excellent basic and applied research.
Research at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences is divided into nine sections covering a wide range of subjects. In addition, several research groups are involved in cross disciplinary and cross institutional centres of which some have head quarters at the department.
Sections
- Section for Crop Sciences: Biosystems, Climate and Technology; Crop Physiology and Production Systems; Floriculture and Translational Plant Science; Horticultural Science; Weed Biology and Management
- Section for Environmental Chemistry and Physics: Agrohydrology; Environmental Chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Analytical Chemistry
- Section for Genetics and Microbiology: Environmental Microbiology; Microbial Biotechnology
- Section for Molecular Plant Biology: Bioengineering and Dynamic Molecular Interactions; Photosynthesis and Synthetic biology, Biology and Control of Fungal Pathogens; Carbohydrates Metabolism and Phosphate; Plant Cell Walls and Cyanobacteria
- Section for Organismal Biology: Animal Resource Biology; Applied Insect-Plant Ecology; Insect Pathology and Biological Control; Plant Ecology; Plant Systematics
- Section for Plant Biochemistry: Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds; Molecular Evolution; Genetics of Metabolism; Synthetic Biology; Plant Infection and Stress Responses
- Section for Plant Glycobiology: Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Regulation; Cell Wall Bioengineering; Plant Cell Wall Evolution and Diversity; Starch; Plant Pathology
- Section for Plant and Soil Science: Plant Breeding; Plant Nutrition; Soil Fertility
- Section for Transport Biology: Cell Communication; Structure and Function of P-type; Pumps; Signal Transduction; Biomembranes; Secretory Pathway Pumps; Plant Innate Immunity
Centres within the department or in which the department is involved
- Center for Advanced Bioimaging (CAB) Denmark
- Copenhagen Microbiology Center
- Copenhagen Plant Science Centre
- Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Systems
- DynaMo - Center for Dynamic Molecular Interactions
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (NNFCB)
- Pro-Active Plants
- PUMPKIN - The Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease
- UNIK Synthetic Biology
