Excellence in plant and microbial science
Earlier this year, a newly discovered single-cell microbe that can survive in extreme environments was named after Dr Renu Swarup, current Secretary in the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology and former John Innes Centre Postdoctoral Scientist
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A two-day scientific conference at the Royal Society, hosted by The British Society for Plant Pathology, to mark the International Year of Plant Health 2020
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For billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and lakes. Then 450 million years ago the first plants colonised land, evolving in the process multiple types of beneficial relationships with microbes in the soil
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Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature’s most enduring mutual relationships, shedding new light on why plants possess genes that appear to be detrimental to their well-being
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New journal launched by Cambridge University Press and ourselves, with research to focus on big data, machine learning and citizen science in plant biology
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2020 is the International Year for Plant Health, so we caught up with the lead of our Plant Health research programme, Professor Mark Banfield
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We are delighted to announce the appointment of two new Group Leaders, Professor Matt Hutchings and Dr Philip Carella, who will be joining us in August 2020
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We’re delighted that our plant and microbial research has been, and continues to be, used as inspiration and reference for many diverse art and illustration projects
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Former colleagues have paid tribute this week to archivist and science historian Rosemary Harvey who worked at the John Innes Centre for more than 40 years
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