Excellence in plant and microbial science
Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Mark Field MP this week acknowledged the wonderful example of a global partnership between the John Innes Centre and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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A drug discovery tool, the first of its kind, has been launched in a fresh bid to revitalise the urgent search for new antibiotics
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This summer, by complete coincidence, we thought it would be fun to run a World Cup of Plant and Microbial science
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Plants and fungi are very often tangled together in nature. They are either friends (forming mutually beneficial partnerships) or foes (plant defence vs pathogenic fungi).
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An early start from Norwich Airport for a flight to Amsterdam and the onward journey to Beijing begins with a wait as the short hop to the Netherlands is slightly delayed by mist.
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The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killer
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Following extensive training at the John Innes Centre, our visiting scientist Abel Debebe Mitiku will lead the deployment of the first real-time, mobile diagnostics platform for wheat yellow rust in Ethiopia this summer.
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A wealth of previously undescribed plant enzymes have been discovered by scientists at the John Innes Centre
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In May 2017 we joined 35 universities and research institutes backing a pledge to support our technicians by becoming founding signatories of the Technician Commitment.
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