Excellence in plant and microbial science
FTMA is a pioneering scheme that promotes the movement of early-career researchers either from or to the John Innes Centre. For a personal take on what the scheme can mean, we spoke to Dr Inmaculada Ferriol-Safont, a Postdoc who joined us from CRAG in Barcelona
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Xylella is not present in the UK, but should it arrive, then the eco-epidemiology needs to be understood. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty over the UK pathosystem compared to the known outbreak locations. This BRIGIT Consortium Meeting session will present the latest Xylella findings from the BRIGIT project, shedding light on some of the uncertainties in a UK context
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Development of Xylella diagnostics tools and how these tools are being made available to stakeholders is a half day virtual event hosted by the BRIGIT consortium
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The latest advances in our understanding of the plant immune system are mapped out in a new review by John Innes Centre researchers
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Researchers working to develop crops with healthier, more resistant starch at the Quadram Institute and John Innes Centre are partnering with the John Innes Foundation, who will be funding a two year collaborative research programme
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Dr Kevin Pyke completed his PhD on leafless and semi-leafless peas, here at the John Innes Centre in the 1980s. We recently caught up with Kevin, to talk peas, PhDs, four-colour graphs and the John Innes Cricket team
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A type of wrinkled ‘super pea’ may help control blood sugar levels and could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, as suggested by a new study
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Numerous examples of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) have been discovered in plant genomes, but little is known about the formation of these important examples of gene organisation
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Dr Guy Polturak is a postdoctoral scientist, spending his days hunting through gene clusters for the genes involved in specific biosynthetic pathways
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