plant sciences

Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Global Food Security gather academics and experts to share solutions for the planet’s looming food production problem.

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

A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global...

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...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered striking similarities in how two distantly related plants defend themselves against...

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...

A new easy-to-use legal tool that enables exchange of biological material between research institutes and companies launches today.

A new Rising Path, designed to offer a fresh perspective on Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s historic Systematic Beds, will open to the public...