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Our range of technologies and Intellectual Property available for external use
Our plant and microbial research have potential to address unmet global needs.
These include more nutritious foods, improving agriculture outputs compared to inputs, plant protein to reduce reliance on meat, using microbes to reduce dependence on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, improving resilience to climate change, adapting plants for vertical farming and agricultural robots and new medicines.
Intellectual properties and patents covering to our discoveries are available for license by businesses. Those shown below can be licensed through our wholly owned subsidiary John Innes Enterprise. Other innovations based upon John Innes Centre research are available for license from IP management company Plant Biosciences Limited. PBL is jointly owned by the John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory and BBSRC.
We welcome enquiries from companies interested in taking a licence on technology developed at the John Innes Centre. We also welcome general enquiries from companies interested in alternative ways of working together
This invention enables production of wheat varieties with durable resistance to yellow rust by stacking of the identified genes through genetic modification. Homologs of the identified genes may be used to confer fungal resistance in related species such as rice.
Read about genes associated with resistance to wheat yellow rust
This invention provides an opportunity to identify and develop plant varieties, in particular pea varieties, that in combination with correct processing can lower postprandial glucose levels.
Read about peas with altered “resistant” starch when eaten whole or processed correctly improve glucose homeostasis