THE PURDUE CENTER FOR PLANT BIOLOGY (CPB)

Welcome to Purdue’s home for basic plant biology! The CPB community connects faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the plant sciences across different departments and colleges. We’re committed to enhancing research and training in our field, and the Center provides the resources scientists need to answer pressing questions about plant biology.

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Globally Renowned

Purdue has invested more than $50M to advance plant biology research.

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CPB is a diverse community of >100 faculty, graduate students and postdocs.

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High-Impact Collaborative Research
1-in-5 papers are authored by 2+ CPB labs, with over half of publications published in high-impact (Q1) journals.
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Globally Renowned

Purdue has invested more than $50M to advance plant biology research.

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Top Researchers CPB

CPB is a diverse community of >100 faculty, graduate students and postdocs.

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High-Impact Collaborative Research

1-in-5 papers are authored by 2+ CPB labs, with over half of publications published in high-impact (Q1) journals.

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Check out our news and events page for information on upcoming events and the latest discoveries, including stories featuring current and former CPB members.

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Frederick Mildenhall
Frederick Mildenhall - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Frederick “Freddie” Mildenhall feels a dual identity — “born English but...

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Purdue team unravels regulatory mechanism that prevents stem cell differentiation and maintains gender balance in vascular plants

Purdue University plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role...

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Sienna Ogawa
Sienna Ogawa - Graduate Ag Research Spotlight

Aspiring to become a marine biologist wasn’t all that unusual among her peers in Honolulu,...

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‘Plants to people:’ Bob Auber’s path from the Center for Plant Biology to oncology

On Friday March 22, Bob Auber returned to Room 116 in Whistler Hall to stand behind a podium in...

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Kranthi Varala, assistant professor, and Rachel Kuhn, a junior, both in Purdue’s department of horticulture & landscape architecture, collect individual seed pods of genetically modified Arabidopsis plants to help assay the genetic changes leading to higher seed oil content.
Purdue-USDA team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits

Researchers interested in improving a given trait in plants can now identify the genes that...

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Purdue agriculture professors named AAAS Fellows

Purdue College of Agriculture professors Songlin Fei and Tesfaye Mengiste have been named fellows...

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