Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids are made
Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
Read the storyResearch reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
Read the storyReflecting on the ‘culture of commemoration’- how history of science is re-told and why ‘discovery narratives’ of the kind that surround Mendel are promoted
Read the storyScientists from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory today joined colleagues from across Europe in calling for an urgent rethink of EU legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Read the storyBehind every scientist, is a team of people working behind the scenes to help enable the research to continue. We sit down with Becky Owen from our computing team, to ask if turning it off and on again really does work?
Read the storyDetailed exploration of ant nests in the thorny acacia trees in Kenya have revealed a new species of bacteria called, Streptomyces formicae KY5
Read the storyWe sat down with Crop Transformation's Mark Smedley to chat about his work on genetic crop transformation and Crispr/Cas genome editing, as well as training the next generation and how he became a scientist
Read the storyProfessor Sarah O’Connor took great pleasure in personally penning the nomination letter that has led to her being awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 2019 Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), along with partners at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and elsewhere warn that we are not fully prepared to tackle the rise in new epidemics of plant diseases
Read the storyDr David Seung's group are working to find out how plants make starch at the molecular level. We caught up with him to ask why he chose to work on starch and what it was like to meet the man his fellowship is named after
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