Excellence in plant and microbial science
At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team
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Fourteen researchers from eight European countries came together to attend a workshop providing training in genomics-based, pathogen diagnostic and surveillance techniques as part of the Horizon2020-funded RustWatch program
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Towards the end of 2019, a group of our scientists headed off to Spain for the inaugural Early Career Researchers Conference, we asked two of them; Jo Hepworth and Millie Stanton, to tell us all about it
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An ambitious research project to improve global wheat production has been awarded a major slice of European funding to use tools such as gene editing to engineer useful genetic variation in wheat’s huge and notoriously complex genome
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Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate change for farmers
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Genotyping is looking at specific, differences within a population of plants, and within specific areas of their genome, so that you can then use those selected areas of a plant’s genome in plant breeding
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A new study using the model species Streptomyces venezuelae has shown that c-di-GMP intervenes later in development to control the differentiation of the reproductive hyphae into spores
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Researchers have identified the critical last pieces of a genetic defence system that gives oats resistance to soil pathogens
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A free exhibition running from 3-9 December, showcasing the winning art and poetry entries that were inspired by the science that is carried out across the Norwich Research Park
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