Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people
Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer
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25 JunEvent Genetics Society centenary party
To celebrate the centenary of the Genetics Society, we are hosting a birthday party and a special Centenary Medal Lecture by Sir Paul Nurse
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Blog Where does human intelligence come from?
Where does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory
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Press Release Queen’s Birthday Honours recognition for Professor Michael Bevan FRS
Professor Michael Bevan FRS is today honoured for his scientific contributions in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
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21 JunEvent Friday Seminar – CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction
This week's speaker is Professor Julian Schroeder, Novartis Chair and UC San Diego
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Blog Rose named after Janaki Ammal
A new rose hybrid has been named after former John Innes botanist Janaki Ammal
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10 JulEvent CRISPR / Cas9 training course
Our Crop Transformation team are offering a training course on crop genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 to UK researchers
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News New tool reveals how the different shapes of organisms grow
A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us
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Blog Nominative Determinism in our plant and microbial science institute
Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to move towards careers which reflect their names. We thought it would be fun to see how many of the staff at John Innes Centre had taken career paths that matched...
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