Did you know that access to the “world’s most valued plant database” (Nature, 2009) is free for all teachers, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), tribal colleges and universities (TCU...

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

Microtubule severing is essential for proper eukaryotic cell elongation and division. Here we show that the microtubule severing protein, KATANIN, is encoded by two genes in Zea mays (maize) called Di...

A message from Silvia Restrepo, President, Boyce Thompson Institute As the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) embarks on our second century of plant science innovation, I’m deeply honored to announce the…

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International Master in Plant Sciences track of the Biology AgroSciences master degree https://www.master-sciences-du-vegetal.fr/eng We are delighted to share that the International Master in Plant Sciences track of the Biology AgroSciences Master degree will soon be launching (September 2026). Fully taught in English (First and second year) and embedded in the Saclay Plant Sciences Excellence Network, this program will train a new generation of talented students to tackle the most pressing challenges in plant research — from climate resilience to sustainable agriculture.

Surveying visitors at a major botanical garden reveals a surprising gap in plant evolution knowledge, and a clear opportunity to close it.

Genetic mutations that result from spontaneous errors, random induction, or localized genome editing can produce functionally equivalent outcomes that are

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Nigel Francis and Jordon Millward will discuss their work on AI in student assessment, marking, and feedback, followed by an open floor for audience discussion. The first webinar in our new Outreach E...

Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...

Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...