Two new studies have mounted a robust defence of Gregor Mendel against historic criticism that questions his place as “Father of Genetics.”

Postdoctoral researcher Franziska Hoerbst and Dr Melissa Tomkins are pioneering new computational-based techniques to track the root to shoot voyage of long-distance signalling molecules through plants

For more than forty years, the John Innes Centre farmed the land at Newfound Farm, Cringleford, just along Colney Lane from the main laboratory buildings here in Norwich

Meet Dr Sancha Salgueiro, a member of the John Innes Centre’s Alumni Network. Sancha joined Roger Hull’s lab in the Virology department at the John Innes Centre in October 1988 as a visiting worker. She stayed in Roger’s lab to complete a PhD with the University of East Anglia between September 1989 to September 1992....

A collaborative team of innovative and creative researchers from the John Innes Centre and the Quadram Institute Bioscience took part in a competition to develop a commercial idea from novel research. The team, called “SUSU yoghurt”, were finalists in the YES22 Competition with their hypothetical B12 probiotic yoghurt product. Their idea, pitch and creative use...

Late last month, John Innes Centre researchers held the fourth Bioinformatics and Wheat Genomics workshop in Worcester, South Africa

This month saw the awards ceremony for the RITS (Research Institute Technicians’) Awards take place on 3rd March. The RITAs, organised by the Research Institute Technician Group (RITG) and sponsored by UKRI, aim to celebrate and recognise the valuable and considerable contribution of technicians and support staff to research institutes across the UK. This year...

On the 28th of January, Professor Cristobal Uauy, Dr Luzie Wingen and Anna Backhaus from the John Innes Centre (JIC) set out for Kazakhstan to deliver for a one-week workshop on wheat genetics and genomics

Dr Yiliang Ding and her group at the John Innes Centre have been awarded prestigious European funding to take forward pioneering research into RNA and its structure. In the second of this two blog series we find out more about this flexible molecule and its role in plant, animal and human health