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

The Brassicaceae plant family boasts a stunning diversity of fruit shapes. But even in this cosmopolitan company the heart-shaped seed pods of the Capsella genus stand out

New evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations

Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops

Researchers have successfully assembled a near-complete genome sequence of the popular plant model system Antirrhinum majus

Insect-studying researchers have thanked the public for their help in establishing a thriving new colony of ladybirds at the John Innes Centre