Detoxifying the plant with the poisonous past
Grass pea, the crop with the curse, is set for a major change in reputation thousands of years after it was first cultivated.
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Press Release Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
The John Innes Centre has joined a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms
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Blog Introducing ResNet
Earlier this year a call went out for a new volunteer ResNet Rep from the John Innes Centre.
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News Early career researchers are the future of a European Research Area
The John Innes Centre has formed an alliance with two other leading plant science institutes to promote the vision of a pan-continental European Research Area
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Blog The 2018 Undergraduate Summer School
At the end of last week 15 undergraduates from all over the world gathered at the North Norfolk coast.
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News Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal crops moves a step closer
A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team, bringing us one step closer to realising the goal of engineering a range of crops to fix their own nitrogen
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Blog From turquoise suits to Athena SWAN gold
We have Liz Atchison, who worked as the Librarian, Curator and Archivist until her retirement in 1997, to thank for changing the dress code for women at the John Innes Centre.
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Press Release John Innes Centre wins funding for grass pea project in Sub-Saharan Africa
A ground-breaking John Innes Centre project to cultivate grass pea in drought-prone areas has been awarded £1.2m funding.
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News Leaves possess a molecular compass
Leaves provide us with food, forest canopies and football fields. Every leaf grows from only a few cells. But what guides these cells to become the leaf shapes we recognise in the natural world?
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