UF IFAS Plant Molecular & Cellular Biology - PMCB Graduate Program

10/03/2024

Welcome to our fantastic group of Fall 2024 students!

11/21/2023

🎓 REMINDER: The deadline for submissions is 12/1/2023 and you can apply via the following link: https://admissions.ufl.edu/apply/graduate/ For any questions or inquiries, feel free to reach out to Emily Murphy at [email protected]. Join us in cultivating knowledge and advancing plant science! 🌱

11/15/2023

🌿 Exciting News: Our UF Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program is now accepting PhD applications! 🎓 The deadline for submissions is 12/1/2023 and you can apply via the following link: https://admissions.ufl.edu/apply/graduate/ For any questions or inquiries, feel free to reach out to Emily Murphy at [email protected]. Join us in cultivating knowledge and advancing plant science! 🌱

08/10/2023

Congratulations to PMCB Faculty member Matias Kirst on being awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.

07/27/2023

Scientists from the Basset lab in the Horticultural Sciences Department at UF and the Chemistry Research Unit at the ARS-CMAVE in Gainesville FL, discovered an evolutionary mechanism that could help develop new herbicides & algicides. The research is published at https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad202

12/14/2021

Our very own Ph.D. student, Hope Hersh has been selected by NASA as 1 of 18 proposals to win a cash prize of $25,000. This will help Hope further develop her idea of Space Bread. To learn more about this project, please see the link below.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hope Hersh has her sights set on something out of this world—freshly baked bread for astronauts. As a plant molecular and cellular biology doctoral student in the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and... Read More

11/09/2021

PMCB is now accepting applications for Fall 2022. Apply by December 1st to be considered. For additional information, please visit our website: https://pmcb.ifas.ufl.edu/

02/17/2020

Check out this outstanding K-12 outreach initiative spearheaded by our PMCB doctoral student Drake Garner!!

Educational Site - Learn about plant science!

01/15/2020

The University of Florida citrus improvement team is working on interesting and possibly lucrative selections with niche market and dooryard potential.

01/14/2020

https://www.usabreakingnews.net/2020/01/exotic-new-crop-could-put-florida-on-world-spice-map/

In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, photo, Alan Chambers, assistant professor of horticultural sciences at UF/IFAS, checks the beans on an open pod of vanilla tahitensis, from Ecuador that he is studying as part of a research study on growing Vanilla in South Florida, at the University of Florida Tropi...

01/13/2020

Two UF Scientists (one is Dr. Patricio Munoz, PMCB faculty) Part of $12.8 Million Blueberry Breeding Grant

https://florida.growingamerica.com/news/2019/12/two-uf-scientists-part-128-million-blueberry-breeding-grant

01/12/2020

https://florida.growingamerica.com/news/2019/12/featured-ufifas-cultivars-released-2019-include-fruits-oat-and-zoysiagrass