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Professor Julian Hibberd’s Lab published a significant step towards understanding the efficient form of photosynthesis known as the C 4 pathway in The Plant Cell on the 15 th of January 2016. In most photosynthetic organisms, ranging from bacteria to land plants, the first step of photosynthesis is catalysed by the enzyme...

In terrestrial ecosystems, plants take up phosphate predominantly via association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The resulting symbioses contribute to global carbon and mineral nutrient cycles, because AMF provide mineral nutrients to the plant and receive carbohydrates in return. Colonization of plant roots by...

The launch of the Young Innovators' Forum (YIF) was a success. Last Wednesday, almost 100 farmers and Plant Sciences scientists met in an informal evening get-together in the Sainsbury lab to start what we hope is the first of many gatherings to build a cohort of committed young agri-tech professionals, with a strong...

Béatrice Wedeux and David Coomes published a paper in Biogeosciences analysing how environmental factors and selective logging interact to shape the canopies of tropical forests. Using airborne laser scanning technology across a 750 km 2 peat swamp forest landscape in Borneo, the study reveals strong shifts in canopy...