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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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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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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Bob Auber presents from a screen titled "A Day in the Life." In the foreground, there are two graduate students watching.
‘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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Purdue's bell tower stands tall behind a foreground of purple petunias
Purdue agriculture professors named AAAS Fellows

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

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Soybean ressearchrs
Researcher uses automated imaging technology for fast detection of destructive soybean pest

Lei Zhang, assistant professor of plant nematology, is on the lookout for the soil-borne...

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A shaved ice machine sprinkles snow over young arabidopsis plants to freeze the whole plant at once.
The perks and pitfalls of ‘plastic’ plants

Imagine broccoli’s short, sparse and ugly cousin, and you have Arabidopsis thaliana. It is...

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The Keys to Unlocking Plant Reproductive Behavior

If you took a biology class in high school, you probably learned that flowering plants reproduce...

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Xing Liu and Kankan Wang use the Stop Flow Machine.
Breaking down the biochemical pathways of protein degradation

Proteins are more than just important nutritional units to track in your diet. They are encoded...

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