Scientists researching a new antibiotic have pieced together the way it is produced by a soil bacterium by working out the functions of its genes

For the first time, scientists have identified a mutation in plants that was selected twice - during both natural evolution and domestication

Scientists have developed a new high-throughput method for extracting RNA from Arabidopsis plants

The field of biological imaging has seen incredible advances due to new imaging techniques and molecular markers, which is producing large amounts of data, and storing, manipulating and processing this data presents a challenge to science

Scientists are collaborating on a new international research project to identify antibiotics that can kill tuberculosis and fight resistant strains

Legumes, such as peas, are an economically important source of protein for food and animal feed, and there has been a constant drive to improve the content and quality of protein in these crops

Plants are able to protect themselves from most bacteria, but some bacteria are able to breach their defences

To help in the search for new antibiotics, Juan Pablo Gomez-Escribano and Professor Mervyn Bibb have adapted a strain of Streptomyces coelicolor to express clusters of genes found from genome sequencing projects whose functions are unknown

Aphids are some of the most destructive insect pests of crop plants, not only through the damage they cause from feeding but also through transmitting a variety of economically important diseases