Artificial Intelligence works out the problem of seed germination tests
Researchers have taught a clever new tool how to carry out one of crop breeding’s more challenging tasks
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News A histone modifier that facilitates an epigenetic switch
Researchers 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
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Blog Adventures and Africa, my career in plant science
Tilly 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
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News Funding to study resistance genes in wild wheat will help combat rust diseases
The 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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News Physical link between RNA processing and epigenetic silencing discovered
A new paper by Dr Xiaofeng Fang from the Professor Caroline Dean lab has been able to show how proteins that shape chromatin and RNA processing machinery physically interact
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News, Press Release 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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