The winter weather window that costs UK rapeseed growers millions
UK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window
Read the storyUK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window
Read the storyThe 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
Read the storyProfessor Anne Osbourn has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in honour of her exceptional contribution to science
Read the storyAn ambitious scientific investigation into how organisms remember environmental changes at a cellular level has been awarded European funding
Read the storyThe 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
Read the storyNew evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations
Read the storyResearchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops
Read the storyResearchers have successfully assembled a near-complete genome sequence of the popular plant model system Antirrhinum majus
Read the storyInsect-studying researchers have thanked the public for their help in establishing a thriving new colony of ladybirds at the John Innes Centre
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