Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford


The Department of Plant Sciences, at the University of Oxford, England, focuses on research and teaching in plant and fungal biology. It is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.

Notable academic staff

Former staff and alumni include:
The Department has three research groups:
The Department houses the Oxford University Herbaria that consists of two herbaria:
In total the collections contain 800,000 specimens and the department has close links with the University's Oxford Botanic Garden.

History

was an important part of the university under the name of the Imperial Forestry Institute, from 1924; later the Commonwealth Forestry Institute from 1939. The Oxford Forestry Institute was incorporated into the Department of Plant Sciences in 2002, and research relating to forestry is now undertaken under the department's name. Some students were Imperial Forest Service students, who came from many parts of the British Empire to qualify as foresters before they returned home. It ran a post graduate MSc forestry course for many years: Forestry and its Relation to Land Use, until 2002.