Space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement
Technology first used by NASA to grow plants extra-terrestrially is fast tracking improvements in a range of crops, by 'speed-breeding'
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Blog Meet the Molecules – Catnip
Plants may appear peaceful, but beneath their calm exterior, they’re locked in continuous and ever-changing chemical warfare.
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Blog A conversation with Dr Chris Morgan
Dr Chris Morgan is a Postdoctoral Scientist working in Kirsten Bomblies' lab in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department. We chatted to him about his life and work.
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Blog The sights and sounds of the Norwich Science Festival
October 2018 saw the 3rd Norwich Science Festival and once again The John Innes Centre, and our colleagues on the Norwich Research Park attended in large numbers.
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Press Release Leap forward in understanding plant organ growth
Cells are the building blocks of life that grow and divide to create all living things, but how cell growth and division is integrated to form structures such as plant leaves has until now remained unknown
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Press Release Important class of sugars a clue to toxic algal blooms
Researchers have found an important class of sugars in algae, that could lead to a better understanding of algal blooms
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News John Innes Centre joins European scientists to safeguard precision breeding
European plant and life sciences research centres and institutes endorse a position paper that calls upon European policy makers to safeguard gene-editing technologies.
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Blog The Great Storm
I joined the John Innes institute (as it was then) in 1987. It was much smaller than it is now; Colney Lane really was a lane, there was no hospital and buses only got as far as UEA.
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Press Release “Game-changing” funding success for European research alliance
A major grant to fund curiosity-driven research into plant communication has been awarded to a John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues from two European institutes
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