Excellence in plant and microbial science
Dr Simon Aspland joined us in December 2019 as our new Head of Commercialisation. We sat down with him to find out how he intends to help progress innovations originating at the John Innes Centre into practical applications
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All our activities, blogs, press releases and news stories grouped by a range of topics, allowing you to see and read everything we have produced in areas that are of interest you
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Researchers have discovered that the circadian clocks in plants play a critical role in the consumption of water, allowing plants to use this precious resource more efficiently
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PhD student Joshua Joyce is investigating the way plants respond to attack from insect pests and how we could support plants to better defend themselves against this threat
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Professor Dave Evans has been recognised for his outstanding contribution as a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Professor Dave Lawson manages our Protein X-Ray Crystallography technology platform. We sat down with him to ask what protein crystallography is, why it’s useful and how he got into this field of research?
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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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