plant sciences

Researchers have identified an entirely new type of wood that does not fit into either category of hardwood or softwood.

The funding provides leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major...

Researchers have discovered how a South African daisy makes fake lady flies on its petals to trick male flies into pollinating it.

Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues ‘blush’ with beetroot pigments when they are colonised by fungi that help them take up...

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...

Mark Greenwood and James Locke from the University's Sainsbury Laboratory reveal how plants tell the time and coordinate their cellular rhythms. This...

A gene newly-linked to plant self-defence may hold the key to saving important crops from a deadly disease, scientists at Cambridge's Sainsbury...

As parents of identical twins will tell you, they are never actually identical, even though they have the same genes. This is also true in the plant...