Joining the home of Streptomyces research
We welcome the latest group to join an ongoing quest to understand Streptomyces - a bacteria crucial to human health and medicine - led by Professor Matt Hutchings
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Press Release Research cracks RNA structural code to create opportunities for plant, animal and human health
Research reveals how a newly discovered structural feature of RNA helps regulate gene activity and could be used to fine edit traits in crops
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News Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
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Blog What is vernalization and how do plants remember winter?
The process by which plants use a prolonged cold period – winter – to promote flowering is known as vernalization
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Press Release Space to grow, or grow in space – how vertical farms could be ready to take-off
Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi, but there is a growing environmental and economic case for them, according to new research laying out radical ways of putting food on our plates
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Blog The John Innes Centre and the compost that bears our name
While our scientists developed the recipe for what came to be called John Innes compost in the 1930s, we have never manufactured, supplied or sold compost for public use and have never benefited financially or otherwise from the production of John Innes Compost
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Blog How to know what questions to ask; taking an quantitative approach
We asked Quantitative Plant Biology Editor-in-Chief Dr Olivier Hamant his thoughts on why this new journal is important and how taking a quantitative approach can generate interesting questions and answer them accurately
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Press Release 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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