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

Researchers have developed an open source, reproducible Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the spring wheat cultivar Fielder

The team used a combination of 3D imaging, cell and clonal analysis and computational modelling to understand how carnivorous plant traps are shaped, showing how Utricularia gibba traps grow from a near spherical ball of cells into a mature trap capable of capturing prey

We will co-lead a pioneering research programme investigating how a plant-based diet could prevent chronic illness