Faced by climate change, and our ever-increasing agricultural demands, what can we do to improve crops being grown? Liz Chapman is working on improving wheat yields by investigating the length of time the crops stay green

For aspiring plant breeders, our postgraduate MSc course in Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement has earned a reputation as an entry point for the next generation of plant breeders

We chatted with new Group Leader Richard Smith about his computational path from computer graphics, to investigating how genes control cell growth

Dr Antony Dodd's research covers circadian rhythm and signalling in plants, we asked him how do plants tell the time and do plants suffer from jet lag?

For our final blog of 2019, we say goodbye to Stephan Johnson, who retired this month after a 40-year career here at the John Innes Centre

Natassja Bush is a Postdoctoral Scientist and a mother. We caught up with Natassja to find out how she was getting on, what she had learned and what she would say to anyone in science considering starting or extending their family.

At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team

Towards the end of 2019, a group of our scientists headed off to Spain for the inaugural Early Career Researchers Conference, we asked two of them; Jo Hepworth and Millie Stanton, to tell us all about it

Genotyping is looking at specific, differences within a population of plants, and within specific areas of their genome, so that you can then use those selected areas of a plant’s genome in plant breeding