Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
23 July 2021Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues ‘blush’ with beetroot pigments when they are colonised by fungi that help them take up nutrients from the soil.
Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens
12 July 2019Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered striking similarities in how two distantly related plants defend themselves against pathogens despite splitting from their common ancestor more than 400 million years ago.
Enemy at the gates: the battle to save our crops
22 May 2019A gene newly-linked to plant self-defence may hold the key to saving important crops from a deadly disease, scientists at Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory now hope.
Research shows first land plants were parasitised by microbes
04 April 2018Relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.
