A new study has isolated a gene controlling shape and size of spikelets in wheat in a breakthrough which could help breeders deliver yield increases in one of the world’s most important crops.

Crowd-funded resource is launched by an international consortium. 

It’s one of the major challenges of biology: how to accurately quantify the mass of swarming, shifting shapes that make up the matter of life.

A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms is on the verge of being introduced following successful field and lab tests.

A new study has uncovered multiple factors that contribute to the important phenomenon of vernalisation in plants.

Breeding temperature-resilient crops is an “achievable dream” in one of the most important species of commercially-cultivated plants

Scientists, breeders, farmers and conservation groups must continue to work in close collaboration to prepare for the potential re-emergence of a forgotten crop pathogen, a new study advises today.

A fascinating blow-by-blow account of the arms struggle between plants and viral pathogens is revealed in new research.

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period.