Tomatoes, said to be the world’s most popular fruit, can be made both better-tasting and longer-lasting thanks to UK research with purple GM varieties. “Working with GM tomatoes that are different to normal fruit only by the addition of a specific compound, allows us to pinpoint exactly how to breed in valuable traits,” said Professor...

The enthusiasm of a school biology teacher helped fuel Professor Mervyn Bibb’s own curiosity. Today, as antibiotic resistance nears a crisis point, his work to understand how soil bacteria produce antibiotics is more vital than ever

Receiving his first microscope hooked Professor Mike Bevan on biology. He has since pioneered insights taken up by the crop biotech industry and with his current work aims to increase food production

Two scientists from the John Innes Centre have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the premier scientific accolade in the UK

Why do rose petals have rounded ends while their leaves are more pointed?

For the first time in nearly a century drinkers will be able to taste beer made from Chevallier, the classic heritage barley from the Victorian period

The John Innes Centre’s Molecular Microbiology department has recruited a new Project Leader as Dr Barrie Wilkinson joins

Professor Enrico Coen from the John Innes Centre has been awarded €2.5M EU funding to explore the growth and evolution of carnivorous plants. “Carnivorous plants turn the normal order of nature upside down, eating animals instead of being eaten by them,” said Karen Lee, a researcher working on the project at the John Innes Centre....

A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way