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JICNews is a service of the John Innes Centre Communications Team and the primary source of current news from the John Innes Centre. JICNews holds all news items from 2006 to the present.

2005

• 15-12-05 Discovery focuses on the ‘point’ of plant cell development.
• 06-12-05 Size matters to a plant, but how is it controlled?
• 10-11-05 Scientists discover how crops use the length of the day to decide when to flower.
• 09-11-05 Norwich young scientist among Europe's best.
• 11-08-05 Scientists track down the chemical that signals plants to flower.
• 23-06-05 John Innes Centre's Norfolk Show exhibit demonstrates how to grow plants in microchips and the importance of soil in medicine.
• 24-05-05 Norwich scientists' exhibit "Growing plants in microchips" takes Silver-Gilt at the Chelsea Flower Show 2005.
• 11-05-05 Scientists demonstrate how to grow plants in microchips at the Chelsea Flower Show 2005.
• 08-04-05 Restructuring at the John Innes Centre.
• 15-03-05 Brewing up potential anti-cancer drugs from green tea .
• 09-02-05 Nature points the way to a sustainable hydrogen economy.

2004

• 01-01-04 Scientists discover what plants do during long winter nights.
• 08-01-04 How plants remember winter, in order to flower in spring.
• 23-02-04 Norwich scientists slash the time and cost required to identify and isolate genes.
• 25-04-04 Helping tomatoes cope with stress may be good for us.
• 12-05-04 Why does an anti-anthrax drug kill plants too?

2003

• 05-02-03 Scientists discover the gene that causes the smell of the earth and leads camels to water.
• 12-02-03 The 'green revolution gene' goes to the root of how plants control their growth.
• 14-02-03 Norwich scientist is first recipient of prestigious new science award.
• 13-03-03 Norwich scientists grow snapdragons in microchips.
• 13-03-03 Last day for science event that has allowed 4,000 Norfolk school children to "get the message".
• 27-03-03 Bursting buds are dicing with death.
• 14-04-03 British/French research partnership in wheat genetics brings new hopes for global food security.
• 23-04-03 Scientists isolate world's oldest recorded plant virus.
• 13-05-03 Scientists invite the public to view the "Garden Soaps" at the Chelsea Flower Show 2003.
• 20-05-03 Chelsea Flower Show gold medal for Norwich scientists' "Garden Soaps" exhibit.
• 18-06-03 Criminal damage to GM research trial at the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
• 20-06-03 Solving agricultural problems through science - the John Innes Centre at the Royal Norfolk Show 2003.
  

2002

• 25-09-02 Researchers eavesdrop on the internal communication system plants use to warn they are under attack.
• 21-09-02 Why plants' soapy defences against disease don't always wash.
• 18-09-02 John Innes Centre loses research partneras company re-structures.
• 26-06-02 Gene discoversty suggests that plant breeders may be able to produce nitrogen-fixing crops more easily than previously thought
• 19-06-02 Genes chips, robots, phone books and ancient plants at the Royal Norfolk Show as John Innes Centre scientists look into the past and the future
• 21-05-02 Chelsea Flower Show gold Medal for John Innes Centre's invitation to the public to "Meet the Ancestors - of the past and the future"
• 15-05-02 Scientists invite the public to: "Meet the Ancestors" at the Chelsea Flower Show
• 07-05-02 Scientists open the recipe book of Nature's antibiotic factory.

2001

• 17-05-01 Crop Circle Genetics at the Chelsea Flower Show.
• 22-05-01 Crop Circle Genetics takes Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show.
• 22-06-01 Destruction of a GM barley research trial at the John Innes Centre.
• 16-07-01 Laying the foundation for more science at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
• 04-09-01 A Conference on providing ideal plant growth conditions wherever you are in the World.
• 31-10-01 Research in Norwich targets anthrax's 'Achille's heel'.
• 13-11-01 Prestigious National Award for Norwich Scientist.
• 16-11-16 The gene that helps plants remember the winter.

2000

• 04-04-00 Rice Genome Sequencing to speed up as a result of sharing Public and Private data
• 15-05-00 The Invisible Colours of Flowers - the John Innes Centre at the Chelsea Flower Show.
• 23-05-00 John Innes Centre Exhibition takes Silver Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.
• 09-10-00 John Innes Centre announces restructuring plans.
• 12-10-00 Isolation of the plant gene that causes plants to need a winter before they will flower.
• 31-10-00 The two-faced behaviour of a molecule isolated from a soil bacterium sheds new light on the regulation of biological activities - including blood clotting and the male erection.
• 13-12-00 A minor mustard spices up plant science by revealing the recipe for life.

1999

• 13-05-99 "Spots, stripes and sectors - the biology of beauty" The John Innes Centre at Chelsea Flower Show 1999.
• 25-05-99 John Innes Scientists Scoop Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show.
• 17-06-99 Gene transfer from genetically modified crops.
• 02-07-99 New director for the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
• 12-07-99 'Green Revolution' gene isolated by John Innes scientists.
• 08-09-99 Scientists solve 250 year mystery of "Monster" flowers.
• 05-11-99 From the Laboratory to the Market EPBN Start-up Company Workshop.
• 12-11-99 Discovery of a gene that controls symmetry in plant organs.
• 15-12-99 Scientists announce major step in making the first complete gene map of a plant.

1998

• 18-05-98 Two Norwich scientists each receive UK's highest scientific award.
• 27-08-98 Royal Society Medal for Revolutionary Genetic Research at the JIC.
• 01-09-98JIC Hosts International Conference on Plant Cell Walls.
• 03-09-98 The John Innes Centre celebrates awards for scientific excellence and 30 years in Norwich.
• 17-09-98 Major new alliances with industry build on world class science at the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
• 25-11-98 Chairman of John Innes Foundation Trustees, Mr Michael Falcom, retires.
• 27-11-98 £1.3 million project to grow rice in Norfolk.

 

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