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Botany

Botany is the area of biology that studies the plant kingdom. Botany encompasses the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, ecology and evolution of plants.

Åsa Strand,  professor vid Institutionen för fysiologisk botanik
Understanding plant signaling systems for more resilient crops

Åsa Strand wants to develop robust crops to ensure food security for the world's population.

Believes in a change in GMO legislation

Stefan Jansson, professor of plant physiology, believes it's an ideal time to make legal changes.

Integrated Science Lab (Icelab)
We take a modelling approach for causal understanding and connect researchers from different backgrounds.
Plant Growth Facilities at Umeå Plant Science Centre
Umeå Plant Science Center has a number of different facilities to grow plants in controlled environments.
Research area: Botany
Two-photon in vivo physiology
The infrastructure offers a combination of multiphoton and imaging systems at high spatio-temporal resolution, combined with other physiological...
Research area: Biological sciences, Botany
The researchers are standing in a narrow white room, with high shelfs of small, green plants in containers. They are holding the flower of on of the plants and studying it closely.
Scientists unlock one of the toughest biomaterials and find clues to pollen's expiration date

By opening up pollen grains, a technique developed in Umeå, scientists found clues to pollen's expiration date

Forskaren och Head of Unit på SMC, Annika Johansson, berättar om forskningen vid infrastrukturen för besökarna.
Ukrainian researchers visited Umeå in search of collaboration and inspiration

With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of laboratory research came to a halt.

En julgran med röda julkulor i skogen
The science behind Christmas trees: How conifers brave winter's worst

Christmas trees bring joy into our lives, but also endure extremely harsh conditions in the forest.

Stress Response Modeling at IceLab

A multidisciplinary complexity center formed to unveil universal principles and adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress.

Duration 1 January 2024
Type of project Research project
Statistical Learning for Chronosilviculture
Research area: Botany, Mathematics, Statistics
Duration 1 February 2023 until 31 January 2025
Type of project Post-doc project
Does it have to be “first come, first served” for roots and plants?
Research area: Botany, Ecology
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Are there glycosylated proteins in plastids?
Research area: Biological sciences, Botany
Duration 22 January 2008 until 1 February 2009
Type of project Research project
The role of some of the extrinsic proteins in the oxygen evolution mechanism
Research area: Biological sciences, Botany
Duration 22 January 2008 until 31 December 2009
Type of project Research project