Scientists across the Atlantic have joined forces to speed up the development of malting barley for the explosion in craft brewing in the UK and US, and demand for locally-produced beer

Dr Claire Domoney has been awarded the Royal Agricultural Society of England Research Medal for her research in pea genetics

The scientists who recently identified dramatic changes in yellow rust populations affecting wheat in the UK, have just been awarded £1.2 million to develop a new, quicker, cheaper version of their field–based diagnostic tool

New research findings have helped to settle an important debate in the field of epigenetic inheritance

Dr Anne Edwards has been presented with her British Empire Medal by the Queen, for services to the environment and public understanding of science

The global threat of widespread bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest challenges facing science and medicine

A set of 101 historic images from the John Innes Historical Collections’ rare books have been digitised and are available online in the Mary Evans Picture Library

Jim O'Neill's call for a global innovation fund to revitalise the discovery of new antibiotics could not be more timely

To grow more food more sustainably we need to make plants better at recruiting nutrients and water from soil to seed, according to 12 leading plant scientists writing in Nature