Professor Cathie Martin, plant biologist and editor-in-chief of the American monthly journal The Plant Cell, has been made an MBE in recognition of her work

The first sequence data for a survivor of the ash dieback epidemic has been made available by scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) as part of a research collaboration led by the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory

Work undertaken at the John Innes Centre describes new Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) protocols to identify and footprint protein-DNA interactions in a cost effective and semi-automated way

John Innes Centre scientists will participate in new €2 million EU-funded research to programme more “intelligent” and adaptable robot swarms

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?