Welcome to The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Plants have been instrumental for the development and establishment of Life on Earth. They provide our food and are the source of almost all energy used by mankind. Most alternative energy resources of the future are also likely to be plant-based.
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About
The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture brings together more than 20 excellent plant scientists who study a wide range of aspects of plant biology relevant to agriculture, from the molecular and cellular levels, and all the way to the whole plant in the field.
The aim of the Institute is to meet future agricultural requirements through applied and basic fundamental research in plant sciences. This research enables us to improve yields and quality,
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Research
Research activities in the Institute include the following areas: genetics, evolution, cellular biology, computational biology, developmental biology, plant physiology, stress physiology, ecophysiology, physiology of agricultural production and relationship between agricultural plants and their environment, agricultural genomics, precision agriculture and remote sensing, breeding, biotechnology, genome editing, applied ecology, nature preservation and management of open areas.
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