In 1985 our History of Genetics Library gained a new book; a duplicate copy of the first edition of William Bateson’s ‘Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: A Defence’, three decades on, we’d like to take this treasure down from the shelves and open it up to a wider audience, explaining why it is so special, and to invite readers to examine the pages for themselves

The short answer is that plants look green to us, because red light is the most useful wavelength for them. The longer answer lies in the details of photosynthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, energy and “special pairs” of chlorophyll molecules in each plant cell

Last week we gave you the perspective of one of our most recent Group Leaders. This week, we have one of our more experienced; Professor Robert Sablowski on what it takes to be a Group Leader at a world-leading plant and microbial research institute

As we recruit the next generation of Group Leaders here at the John Innes Centre, we sat down with one of our most recent, Dr Laila Moubayidin, to find out why she became a scientist and how she went from PhD to Postdoc and on to leading her own lab