Plants in the greenhouse complex at Guterman Lab.

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Gain critical skills to advance your knowledge and address local and global challenges.

Degree programs

The School of Integrative Plant Science is the largest academic unit in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Faculty and staff in the school's five sections support two undergraduate majors, 12 MPS concentrations and five graduate fields.

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Continuing education

Our school is committed to lifelong learning, offering a wide range of programming and skill building for children and adults alike. See featured education programs to take advantage of these opportunities, including online courses and seminar, garden tours and more.

News from the School of Integrative Plant Science

Learn about the many ways we are addressing some of the world's most urgent challenges.

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News

Field crop field day draws big crowd
Photo above: Rebecca Stup (far right in hat with microphone), graduate student in the DiTommaso Lab, discusses her research on the benefits of planting pollinator-friendly strips in field margins. Nearly 200 farmers, educators, industry...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Cornell AgriTech hops featured in Seneca Lake summer beer

This week, cool down at one of Seneca Lake's breweries or restaurants with a pint of PURE Brew made with a new AgriTech hop variety.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
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Cornell-led initiative boosts access to healthy cassava seed in Tanzania

A $4.8  million gift will allow Cornell and partners to expand a project to improve Tanzania’s cassava seed system.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Mark Sorrells, professor of plant breeding and genetics stands in a barley field

News

New LakeEffect winter barley offers flurry of benefits for NYS

LakeEffect, the first winter malting barley released by the Cornell Small Grains Breeding Program, produces high yields, is disease resistant and has a good malting profile, researchers in the School of Integrative Plant Science said.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership. Learn more from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program website.