A £1m Innovate UK project that aims to have a significant impact on reducing the need for UK imports of soya has been announced today. The ‘Pea Protein’ project is a collaboration between Germinal, a grass and forage seed specialists, and seed breeders, using a discovery made by John Innes Centre scientists 30 years ago. The gene...

Professor Dame Caroline Dean has been named by the Genetics Society as the recipient of the Mendel Medal for 2023

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey visited the John Innes Centre in Norwich to learn more about the world-leading research that is delivering healthier, more resilient and more sustainably produced food

A research collaboration has identified members of the DA1 family of growth-regulatory enzymes as targets of effectors secreted by the oomycete pathogen Albugo candida, which causes white blister rust, a widespread disease of Brassica crops