PhD student Joshua Joyce is investigating the way plants respond to attack from insect pests and how we could support plants to better defend themselves against this threat

Professor Dave Lawson manages our Protein X-Ray Crystallography technology platform. We sat down with him to ask what protein crystallography is, why it’s useful and how he got into this field of research?

Earlier this year, a newly discovered single-cell microbe that can survive in extreme environments was named after Dr Renu Swarup, current Secretary in the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology and former John Innes Centre Postdoctoral Scientist

2020 is the International Year for Plant Health, so we caught up with the lead of our Plant Health research programme, Professor Mark Banfield

We’re delighted that our plant and microbial research has been, and continues to be, used as inspiration and reference for many diverse art and illustration projects

Tips for designing an academic poster that conveys your work to your peers at busy poster sessions and encourages collaboration, furthering scientific knowledge exchange

We asked team member and Instagram plant influencer, Sophie Able to enlighten us on what Horticultural Services can do to help plant scientists with their research

Soil is the most important natural resource we have and we are losing it at an alarming rate through degradation, erosion and desertification - much quicker than we can replace it

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