Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyPlants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyThe process by which plants use a prolonged cold period – winter – to promote flowering is known as vernalization
Read the storyVertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi, but there is a growing environmental and economic case for them, according to new research laying out radical ways of putting food on our plates
Read the storyWhile our scientists developed the recipe for what came to be called John Innes compost in the 1930s, we have never manufactured, supplied or sold compost for public use and have never benefited financially or otherwise from the production of John Innes Compost
Read the storyWe asked Quantitative Plant Biology Editor-in-Chief Dr Olivier Hamant his thoughts on why this new journal is important and how taking a quantitative approach can generate interesting questions and answer them accurately
Read the storyResearchers have taught a clever new tool how to carry out one of crop breeding’s more challenging tasks
Read the storyResearchers have characterised a gene from an early flowering Arabidopsis mutant and showed that the mutated gene encodes a protein that modifies chromatin - that is it affects the chemical modifications of the histone proteins that surround the DNA in our cells
Read the storyTilly Eldridge joined the John Innes Centre over a decade ago and since then her scientific career has taken her around the world, before bringing her back to Norwich
Read the storyThe United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $650,000 grant for the study of emmer wheat – one of the very first cereals to be cultivated in agriculture
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