Receiving his first microscope hooked Professor Mike Bevan on biology. He has since pioneered insights taken up by the crop biotech industry and with his current work aims to increase food production

A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence of that crop

Dr Saskia Hogenhout, in collaboration with the Dr Eduardo Bejarano from the University of Malaga (Spain) and Dr Ian Bedford, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project

Barley grown in Scandinavian countries is adapted in a similar way to reindeer to cope with the extremes of day length at high latitudes

Plants and microbes produce a wide spectrum of natural products, which give them their huge range of colours, flavours and scents

Too much sun, too much heat and not enough water makes us sick. The same goes for plants. Including ones that feed us and our livestock

A 120-year debate on how nitrogen-fixing bacteria are able to breach the cell walls of legumes has been settled after paper published by John Innes Centre scientists reports that plants themselves allow bacteria in

New and more virulent crop diseases are predicted to emerge as a result of climate change

The genome of Medicago, a close relative of alfalfa and a long-established model for the study of legume biology, has been sequenced by an international team of scientists, capturing around 94% of its genes