Excellence in plant and microbial science
At the end of 2020, we were joined by Dr Eva Sharpe as our first Head of Strategic Engagement. Having settled into her new role, we sat down with Eva to find out who she is and what her role entails
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A new UK centre of excellence is being set up by partners on the Norwich Research Park to improve global food security which is threatened by the effects of climate change
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Two talented early-career scientists have won £2.5m funding from the global health charity Wellcome Trust, to carry forward their influential research at the John Innes Centre
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An ambitious proposal to create a resistance gene “atlas” as a resource for the international wheat community has been outlined in a new review
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We sat down with Genes in the Environment Programme Manager Dr Teresa Penfield to find out what they’re working on and how different plant organs such as leaves, flowers and fruit form their many and varying shapes
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Professor Dale Sanders has received the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) International Science and Technology Cooperation Award
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John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust
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Plants can tell the time, but how might that knowledge help improve crop protection and food security?
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Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics
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