Essential investment in plant and microbial research in Norwich confirmed
Development of our exciting, ground-breaking plant and microbial science and innovation hub can go ahead with confirmation of funding announced today.
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News Innovative pea protein project aims to break soya habit
A £1m Innovate UK project that aims to have a significant impact on reducing the need for UK imports of soya has been announced today. The ‘Pea Protein’ project is a collaboration between Germinal, a grass and forage seed specialists, and seed breeders, using a discovery made by John Innes Centre scientists 30 years ago. The gene...
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Press Release £76.6m funding boost to world-leading research at John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre today welcomes a major funding investment in its world-leading research and innovation programmes
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News Professor Dame Caroline Dean awarded Mendel Medal
Professor Dame Caroline Dean has been named by the Genetics Society as the recipient of the Mendel Medal for 2023
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Blog Placing Mendel back among the Mendelians
Two new studies have mounted a robust defence of Gregor Mendel against historic criticism that questions his place as “Father of Genetics.”
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News Defra Secretary of State visits John Innes Centre
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey visited the John Innes Centre in Norwich to learn more about the world-leading research that is delivering healthier, more resilient and more sustainably produced food
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News A new Achilles Heel gene discovered in plant-pathogen interactions
A research collaboration has identified members of the DA1 family of growth-regulatory enzymes as targets of effectors secreted by the oomycete pathogen Albugo candida, which causes white blister rust, a widespread disease of Brassica crops
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News Can new bean genome boost food security in drought-prone regions?
An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions
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Blog Life out there? Scanning plant space for new communication networks
Postdoctoral researcher Franziska Hoerbst and Dr Melissa Tomkins are pioneering new computational-based techniques to track the root to shoot voyage of long-distance signalling molecules through plants
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