A genetically modified purple tomato first produced by Norfolk scientists nearly two decades ago has been enthusiastically adopted by home gardeners after it was made available for purchase in the United States

Whilst completing a PhD at CIRAD in Montpellier, Jos came across a job opening published in Nature that gave him the chills. The year was 1995 and the advertised vacancy was to work in the Virology department within the John Innes Centre. “The job vacancy was a perfect fit with my ambitions. The project was...

The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park partners and British Sugar have secured significant new funding to develop innovative gene editing approaches to protect the British sugar beet crop against potentially catastrophic losses to virus yellows disease

The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Food and Farming Minister at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra) visited Norwich Research Park to see how technologies such as gene editing can help farmers to grow more nutritious, disease resistant and environmentally sustainable crops

Dr Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing as a tool for developing more nutritious, sustainable and resilient wheat, in a new series of Royal Society videos featuring Professor Brian Cox. 

Humans are attracted to symmetry: in our buildings, our gardens, in our potential partners. For plants, the symmetrical shapes of organs are a matter of survival because the form directly impacts the function

In the next of our series of interviews with JIC alumni, we spoke to Dr Filomena De Lucia, about her experience of working at the John Innes Centre and her career journey from there. After gaining specific expertise in the field of chromatin and epigenetics during her PhD at the University of Naples, Italy, in...

The pioneering research of Dr Yiliang Ding investigating the structure and function of RNA in living cells has been recognised with a major internationally recognised award