Healthy Plants – Healthy People – Healthy Planet
Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP³) is our vision for achieving a safer, healthier and more sustainable future through the power of plant and microbial science
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Blog Bridging the Agri-tech – biosciences gap from lab to industry
In January 2019, we introduced the Flexible Talent Mobility Award scheme (FTMA), which supports up to three-month work experience placements for scientists to experience life in industry and vice versa
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25 JunEvent Take It to the Farmer: Reflections on Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat
In its second online event, the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative will present a series of reflections on what it means to deliver genetic gain in wheat to farmers and ways to improve the future impact of wheat research
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Blog Streptocarpus; the plant of the decade
Sarah Wilmot re-visits the history of the ‘People’s Choice’ for ‘Plant of the Decade’; Streptocarpus and the breeding of it here at the John Innes, celebrating the contributions of two Alumni from our horticulture team
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Blog Seed vaults, field experiments and being evacuated; a PhD adventure
Last month we were proud to announce that PhD student Anna Backhaus, was the recipient of a prestigious Women in Triticum (WIT) award. Here, Anna reflects on the award and an interrupted but still memorable trip to Mexico – and offers some advice for colleagues
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Blog Paper making with grass pea
A plant important to subsistence farmers and a focus of research here at the John Innes Centre, is now being explored for its creative potential in paper making
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Press Release Parasitic wasp discovery offers chemical-free pest control for farmers
A species of parasitic wasp discovered by chance could provide farmers with a chemical-free way of controlling a major pest
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05 JunEvent Making it count: An introduction to Quantitative Plant Biology
Introducing a new open access journal, Quantitative Plant Biology, published by Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the John Innes Centre
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Blog How to give a successful talk; Part 3; Delivery
James Piercy, our Outreach and Engagement expert returns with the third and final part of his 'How to give a successful talk' series, focussing this time on delivery
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