This summer, by complete coincidence, we thought it would be fun to run a World Cup of Plant and Microbial science

Plants and fungi are very often tangled together in nature. They are either friends (forming mutually beneficial partnerships) or foes (plant defence vs pathogenic fungi).

An early start from Norwich Airport for a flight to Amsterdam and the onward journey to Beijing begins with a wait as the short hop to the Netherlands is slightly delayed by mist.

Following extensive training at the John Innes Centre, our visiting scientist Abel Debebe Mitiku will lead the deployment of the first real-time, mobile diagnostics platform for wheat yellow rust in Ethiopia this summer.

In May 2017 we joined 35 universities and research institutes backing a pledge to support our technicians by becoming founding signatories of the Technician Commitment.

One year on from becoming the first Institution to be awarded Athena SWAN Gold, its impact on our culture continues to grow.

We have recently digitised 157 pages of an old genetics notebook, but we need your help to transcribe them. Until then we won’t be sure what this book might reveal.

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