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At the Sainsbury Laboratory, we study how plants grow, develop and respond to their environment. Our research brings together biology, physics and mathematics to understand plant systems.

We support open and reproducible research so others can use, test and build on our work. By making our research widely available, we aim to support new discoveries and improve understanding of plant science.

Each research group page lists their peer-reviewed publications.
All of our primary research articles, methods and resources are open access. This means you can read them online for free via Apollo - the University of Cambridge respository.

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Sainsbury Laboratory research publications and data are available in the University of Cambridge Apollo repository.

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Publication highlights

Explore key papers from Sainsbury Laboratory, highlighting advances and recent discoveries.

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

Study traces thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing key principles of plant genome evolution.

Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate

Study links ribosome RNA methylation to plant vascular development by altering protein translation rates and influencing xylem cell fate.

Co-colonisation by mutualists and pathogens alters phosphoinositide signals at host interfaces

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi boost plant resilience by remodelling the plant-pathogen membrane interface.

SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

A FRET biosensor for salicylic acid reveals immune hormone levels in plant cells, showing high-resolution spatial dynamics and varied responses to infection.

A BRC1-modulated switch in auxin efflux accounts for the competition between axillary buds

New model reveals how local and systemic signals combine to regulate shoot branching in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The genetic basis of replicated bullseye pattern reduction across the Hibiscus trionum complex

Repeated mutations in one locus cause variation in petal patterning, affecting plant fitness and contributing to reproductive isolation and speciation.

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