Thirteen of Scotland’s most promising academics, representing eleven Higher Education Institutions across the country, have been chosen as the inaugural cohort to take part in the RSE’s new Research L...

We've been working on Begonia luxurians for 10 years. It is a very photogenic species, and popular amongst house plant collectors for its lush leaves.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrates the contribution and important roles of women and girls in STEM.

The presence of more than two copies of the genome in an organism, termed ‘polyploidy’, is a crucial force in plant evolution, generating genetic, phenotypic and ecological diversity. [Correction ad...

This blog was written by Diego Sanchez Ganfornina, of the Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Group (Hetherington Lab | Biology MPEG), collating considerations and reflections through his spring fiel...

Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...

Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

This month, we spoke with Irene Aldazabal, an Argentinian artist and PhD researcher collaborating with Professor Gerben van Ooijen’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences.

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AbstractBackground and Aims. Isoetales is a clade of lycopsids that evolved colossal arborescent forms during their Palaeozoic prime but today are represen

The phytohormone auxin is a conserved inhibitor of shoot branching in plants. While directional, carrier-mediated transport is necessary for the proce…

Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....