Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made

Scientists from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory today joined colleagues from across Europe in calling for an urgent rethink of  EU legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Professor Michael Bevan FRS is today honoured for his scientific contributions in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List

The Dorothea de Winton Field Station unveiled this week is a key component in a smart-farming revolution

It’s been known for centuries that plants produce a diverse array of medically-valuable chemicals in their roots

UK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window

The precious chemistry of a plant used for 2,000 years in traditional Chinese medicine has been unlocked in a project that raises the prospect of rapid access to a wide array of therapeutic drugs

Professor Anne Osbourn has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in honour of her exceptional contribution to science

An ambitious scientific investigation into how organisms remember environmental changes at a cellular level has been awarded European funding