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

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure food security in the future

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