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The Department of Plant Physiology is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre. Our main activities are academic research in experimental plant biology where the major aim is to understand all aspects of plants in relation to the environment in which they live. We teach plant physiology/plant molecular biology at bachelor and master level.
We are teaching at Bachelor, Masters and PhD levels.
The research at the department is focusing on different aspects of plant adaptation to their environment.
The Department of plant physiology is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre.
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