Wheat and the holy grail of crop transformation
Researchers have developed an open source, reproducible Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the spring wheat cultivar Fielder
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News Major funding boost for bioscientists of the future
Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) has been awarded £12 million to train the next generation of bioscientists
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News Key role for calcium release in root development
A study by researchers at the John Innes Centre has discovered that calcium plays a key role in primary root development
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Blog A PhD Community; the John Innes Centre Student Voice
Alicia Russell is both a fourth year PhD Student here at the John Innes Centre and chair of the Student Voice committee, which provides support and representation for our PhD students, plus the odd board game and pizza night
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Blog What is metabolomics?
If you’re a scientist, rather than looking at a single chemical that is interesting, why not look at all the chemicals that make up a plant at once? That’s metabolomics
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News Family of crop viruses revealed at high resolution for the first time
For the first-time we can take a molecular-level look at one of the world’s deadliest crop killers; Luteoviridae
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Press Release Carnivorous plant study captures universal rules of leaf making
The team used a combination of 3D imaging, cell and clonal analysis and computational modelling to understand how carnivorous plant traps are shaped, showing how Utricularia gibba traps grow from a near spherical ball of cells into a mature trap capable of capturing prey
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Blog What is Bioimaging?
Bioimaging is a platform technology that is based around microscopy. Here at the John Innes Centre we offer a mixture of light microscopy which uses light for imaging, and electron microscopy which use beams of electrons instead of light
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Blog What is Informatics?
We sat down with Dr Matthew Hartley, head of our Informatics team, to talk about his team, their work and their position straddling the borderline between science and computing
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