CRISPR gene-editing is allowing rapid scientific advances in many fields, including human health and now it has been shown that crop research can also benefit from this latest exciting technology

The Chinese Vice-Minister of Agriculture and President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Professor Jiayang Li, visited the John Innes Centre to sign an agreement between CAAS and the John Innes Centre to work on cutting-edge research that will address the global challenge of food security

We have strengthened our alliance with Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA) to maximise the impact of our cutting edge science in Africa and to build capacity in the Nairobi-based research hub by supporting African scientists to find scientific solutions to African food security challenges

Scientists have shown that genes from an alga which is capable of very efficient photosynthesis can function properly when introduced into Arabidopsis, a plant commonly used for scientific experiments

A more complete and accurate wheat genome assembly is now available to researchers

Cells have characteristic sizes in different organisms and in different tissues in the same organism

Given the opportunity to drink 50 bottles of wine or eat one tomato, which would you choose?

For over 10,000 years, farmers have selected crops they wanted to breed on their characteristics

Scientists in Professor Claire Domoney’s lab have identified a gene involved in a fundamental process underlying plant growth, and they hope that knowledge of this gene will inform the breeding of healthier, higher yielding crops, including pea