Aberystwyth University opens new £6.8m National Plant Phenomics Centre

National Plant Phenomics Centre

Today, Monday 14 May 2012, the new National Plant Phenomics Centre, which features the most advanced research greenhouse in the UK, will be formally opened at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences.

Funding fuels development of bioenergy crop

Dr. John Clifton-Brown, the project leader at IBERS

New single, integrated Miscanthus breeding programme to speed commercial advances

To flower or not to flower

Professor Noel Ellis

An unusual strain of plant that never flowers has enabled scientists to isolate a gene that is essential for the formation of the branches on which flowers form.

Top scores for degree schemes at IBERS

Graduating Students

"Aberystwyth University is, for the sixth consecutive year, leading on student satisfaction."