Excellence in plant and microbial science
The short answer is that plants look green to us, because red light is the most useful wavelength for them. The longer answer lies in the details of photosynthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, energy and “special pairs” of chlorophyll molecules in each plant cell
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Last week we gave you the perspective of one of our most recent Group Leaders. This week, we have one of our more experienced; Professor Robert Sablowski on what it takes to be a Group Leader at a world-leading plant and microbial research institute
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One of the biggest global challenges of the 21st century has brought members of the international research community together to assess the next steps for research
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Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be explored to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast disease, a major threat to rice production around the world
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As we recruit the next generation of Group Leaders here at the John Innes Centre, we sat down with one of our most recent, Dr Laila Moubayidin, to find out why she became a scientist and how she went from PhD to Postdoc and on to leading her own lab
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Scientists have created a new mobile surveillance technique to rapidly diagnose one of agriculture’s oldest enemies - wheat rusts
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What if, under certain environmental conditions, production of these molecules gave a selection advantage to Streptomyces formicae: could the organism adapt (evolve) rapidly, maybe even through a single mutation, to produce much higher levels of the formicapyridines?
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Every year at the John Innes Centre we welcome hundreds of scientists from around the world, who are just beginning their plant or microbial research careers. We sat down with one of them, Agamemnon Soutas, to ask about his experiences on the course, what has he learned and where does he want to take his plant science career from here?
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Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
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