An investigation into the local histories of saffron in Cambridgeshire.
Walking at ‘botanist pace’ on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr Ángela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type of...
A movement is under way that will fast-forward the design of new plant traits. It takes inspiration from engineering and the software industry, and...
Plants use sugars to tell the time of day, according to research published in Nature today.
A Cambridge Science Festival lecture on Wednesday (13 March 2013) will look at how plants grow through repeating patterns and discuss what we can...
Unique blue fruit’s colour does not fade even after a century
