Planting a purple patch – John Innes Centre and Rotary dig in for World Polio Day
The Rotary Club of Norwich has donated 2,000 purple crocus corms to the John Innes Centre to mark World Polio Day (24 October)
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News International award for group leader recognises excellence in wheat genetics and genomics
Dr Philippa Borrill, a group leader at the John Innes Centre, visited Italy recently to accept the Carlotta Award at the International Conference From Seed to Pasta V
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News Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight
Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the lab
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Blog Battling crop diseases without borders
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
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Blog A look back at our 2024 Annual Science Meeting awards
Each year at the JIC/TSL Annual Science Meeting, our yearly conference event for all staff and students, awards are given to those who go above and beyond. Here we’re going to take a look back at last year’s outstanding award winners.
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Press Release Need a winter warmer? Groundbreaking gene-edited tomato soup trial, with higher levels of ‘Sunshine’ vitamin, recruiting now
Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them
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News Advances Summer 2025 – digital edition now available
Welcome to the 38th edition of the John Innes Centre Advances magazine
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News John Innes Enterprises and Traitomic announce strategic collaboration to accelerate crop improvement
John Innes Enterprises Ltd (JIE), the commercial arm of the John Innes Centre, and Traitomic A/S, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carlsberg Breweries A/S, have announced a new collaboration to harness world-class plant science and advanced genetic screening technologies to improve key crops including oat, oilseed rape, pea, and fava bean
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Blog Data harvesting down on the experimental farm
The 2025 harvest at the John Innes Centre’s field trials and experimental farm was the earliest on recent record, befitting a pattern of extreme weather variation caused by climate change.
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