Professor Cathie Martin's contribution to science has been recognised by election to the membership of a leading European life sciences organisation, EMBO

A new variety of broccoli with higher levels of a key phytonutrient is now available in UK shops thanks to experts working on both the biology of plants and the link between human nutrition and health

'Plant scientist' should take its rightful place beside 'doctor', 'lawyer' and 'vet' in the list of top professions to which our most capable young people aspire, according to a hard-hitting letter by an international group of botanists and crop scientists

The spacing of stomata, the pores through which plants breathe, is key to maximising the plant's breathing and how this spacing was achieved has, until now, been a mystery

A novel way of increasing the amounts of antibiotics produced by bacteria has been discovered that could markedly improve the yields of these important compounds in commercial production

Plants produce a vast array of natural products, many of which we find useful for making things such as drugs

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage type of Brassica rapa, a close relative of oilseed rape

In the first study of its kind, researchers have used tools of paleontology to gain new insights into the diversity of natural plant chemicals

Working out the structure of a complex formed when a protein binds to DNA has proved to be key in understanding how an antibiotic-producing organism controls resistance to its own antibiotic, and may be an example of how other antibiotic producers regulate export to prevent self-toxicity