Sound new technique tunes into the shifting shapes of biology
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
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Press Release New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefits
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.
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Press Release Absence of warm temperature spikes revealed as driver for vernalization
A new study has uncovered multiple factors that contribute to the important phenomenon of vernalisation in plants
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Press Release Temperature resilient crops now an “achievable dream”
Breeding temperature-resilient crops is an “achievable dream” in one of the most important species of commercially-cultivated plants
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News How Snapdragons keep their colour: signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism
A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a clue about how nature controls fundamental evolutionary change in all species.
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News Seeing the bigger picture: imaging technique widens our view on the inner worlds of plants and their guests
Plants come in all shapes and sizes – but why, and how?
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News New research on why plant tissues have a sense of direction
Scientists have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of growth and that this characteristic is essential for producing complex plant shapes
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News Solving a plant-based Rubik’s cube puzzle
Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered a key “twist” in a Rubik’s cube-like plant puzzle, which could pave the way to new, or more effective pharmaceuticals
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News Scientists discover missing link in plant nitrogen fixation process
Scientists have discovered an important component in the process of nitrogen fixation in plants
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