Researchers have solved the long-standing mystery of how plants control the arrangement of their cellulose fibres to grow, support themselves and store fixed carbon from the atmosphere

Dame Helen Mirren has helped renew efforts to keep plant disease Xylella fastidiosa out of the UK by narrating a new animation that warns of the devastation it causes, including the death of millions of olive trees in Europe

Professor Anne Osbourn has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to plant science, thanks to her pioneering work in plant natural product biosynthesis

An ambitious research project to improve global wheat production has been awarded a major slice of European funding to use tools such as gene editing to engineer useful genetic variation in wheat’s huge and notoriously complex genome

Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate change for farmers

Researchers have identified the critical last pieces of a genetic defence system that gives oats resistance to soil pathogens

Wheat that has been biofortified to produce white flour with increased iron has progressed successfully through the first season of field trials

The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us has been revealed in research

For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by Ash dieback and facing the threat of more invasive pests, but new research brings better news for native ash trees