The study of plant flowering and developmental mechanisms has long been pivotal in understanding how plants synchronise their reproductive cycles with environmental cues. Recent advances have delved ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if we live in a big ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It can be disappointing when, after making you wait for months on end, the flowering plants in your garden exhaust their blooms in a few weeks ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

Chris Wyver is a PhD student at the University of Reading. He receives funding from the Waitrose Collaborative Training Partnership and BBSRC. Laura Reeves works for the University of Reading. she ...