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The Centre for Plant Sciences (CPS) at the University of Leeds is a cross-faculty research centre of excellence in plant sciences including cell and molecular biology, genetics & genomics, environmental plant physiology and plant-soil relations. With its core research activity in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, but also members in the Faculty of Environment, CPS has over 12 research groups that study aspects of developmental and hormonal plant biology, comparative genomics, environmental physiology, epigenetics, chromatin structure, cell walls, the plant cell secretory pathway, stress responses and crop science including nematode-resistant crops in addition to soil processes. The Centre has involvement in many European consortia and an extensive range of international collaborations including with the USA, India, Japan and China.