Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people
Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer
Read the storyImprovements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer
Read the storyWhere does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory
Read the storyOur Crop Transformation team are offering a training course on crop genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 to UK researchers
Read the storyProfessor Michael Bevan FRS is today honoured for his scientific contributions in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Read the storyA new rose hybrid has been named after former John Innes botanist Janaki Ammal
Read the storyA new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us
Read the storyThe Dorothea de Winton Field Station unveiled this week is a key component in a smart-farming revolution
Read the storyGenome Editing and Genetic Modification may sound the same, but they mean slightly different things, which has led to uncertainty, and different interpretations globally, as to how the two should be regulated
Read the storyJohn Innes Centre researcher Dr Diane Saunders has received a major award for her pioneering work in helping to combat global crop pathogens
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