Scientists have shown that genes from an alga which is capable of very efficient photosynthesis can function properly when introduced into Arabidopsis, a plant commonly used for scientific experiments

A more complete and accurate wheat genome assembly is now available to researchers

Cells have characteristic sizes in different organisms and in different tissues in the same organism

Given the opportunity to drink 50 bottles of wine or eat one tomato, which would you choose?

For over 10,000 years, farmers have selected crops they wanted to breed on their characteristics

Scientists in Professor Claire Domoney’s lab have identified a gene involved in a fundamental process underlying plant growth, and they hope that knowledge of this gene will inform the breeding of healthier, higher yielding crops, including pea

A team of scientists led by Dr Pierre-Marc Delaux of the John Innes Centre has solved a long-running mystery about the first stages of plant life on earth

Scientists investigating how to control take-all, a fungus that lives in soil and infects wheat roots to cause disease, have discovered that different varieties of wheat have distinct and lasting impacts on the health of the soil in which they are grown

The Royal Statistical Society has released an online version of its training programmes for science and statistics training for journalists