A new piece in the grass pea puzzle – updated genome sequence published
An international research collaboration has completed the most detailed genome assembly to date of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus).
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Blog A pint of the living dead – making beer with zombie plants
One day, a few years ago, a local teacher found something strange in his garden. The story that follows is one of plants, beer, bacteria, insects and ZOMBIES! For this Halloween special edition blog Dr Sam Mugford, research assistant, reveals the strange science of phytoplasmas, a group of plant-infecting bacteria with very peculiar properties, and how he made his own delicious zombie beer…
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Blog Are you a Robin or a Blue Tit?
Rebecca Plater is a Desktop Support Computing Engineer for the Norwich Biosciences Institutes Partnership (the organisation that provides a range of services to the John Innes Centre, Earlham Institute, Quadram Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory). In this blog, she considers what it takes for an IT support team to be successful and how she supports the world-leading science taking place at the Norwich Research Park.
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Blog Let’s talk about scent
At our Heritage Open Day this year, Dr Mikhaela Neequaye talked about her research on the scent of flowers. Mikhaela describes herself as a chemical ecologist and studies the evolution and diversification of floral scent.
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Blog Celebrating Neurodiversity in science: honouring trailblazers
“Neurodiversity is an important part of organisations, teams and society, and without people that think differently we wouldn’t be as creative, efficient or strategic.” Professor Graham Moore FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre As we observe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Awareness Month and Dyslexia Awareness Week this October, it’s an opportune moment to...
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Blog Career Stories: An architecture student’s view – interning with the Next Generation Infrastructure Programme
As a penultimate year architecture student from the University of Leeds, I never imagined that my journey would lead me to a placement at a world-leading research institute specialising in plant science, genetics and microbiology. Yet, here I am, wrapping up a two-month internship with the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) Programme Office at the John...
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News Centre for Microbial Interactions launched at Norwich Research Park
A new initiative has been launched to support and promote the ground-breaking discovery research conducted by the extensive microbiology community at Norwich Research Park
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News Prestigious award recognises wheat researcher’s outstanding contribution to farming
The role of the John Innes Centre in supporting crop breeders and farmers has been recognised with a prestigious award for one of its leading wheat researchers
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Blog Invisible plants
Plants are incredible organisms, making up around 80% of all the biomass on Earth. However, despite their abundance, many people just don’t seem to notice plants. Dr Shannon Woodhouse, Education Programme Co-ordinator, explores this phenomenon. Look at the picture above, what was the first thing you saw? I can guarantee it was Rex the cat and...
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