What is plant transformation?
This blog was originally published on Erica's blog; Scientist Erica and has been reproduced here with her consent.
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Press Release The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
The John Innes Centre has become the first institution in the UK to achieve an Athena SWAN Gold Award.
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Blog The story of the 2017 Open Day
In 1967 the John Innes Institute, as it was then known upped sticks and moved from Bayfordbury in Hertfordshire to Norwich.
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Press Release Changing of the guard – research sheds light on how plants breathe
New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe
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Blog A Visit to Vavilov
In February 2017, Professor George Lomonossoff and Dr Ian Gibson revived a hundred-year relationship between the John Innes Centre and St Petersburg, Russia.
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Blog The story of Arabidopsis – Part 3
Arabidopsis’ story continues (catch up on part 1 and part 2) and the weed now forms the foundation of thousands of studies around the world, including at the John Innes Centre.
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Press Release Life in the fast lane: how plants avoid traffic jams
Traffic jams are the curse of the commute, the scourge of the school run and the bane of Bank Holidays. But gridlocked motorists and students of traffic flow may soon be relieved and enlightened thanks to new research into plants
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Blog The story of Arabidopsis – Part 2
It would be easy to assume that with the characteristics laid out in part 1 of this blog, that Arabidopsis was always an obvious choice as a model organism, however its story is as tangled and complex as the bed of weeds it was plucked from.
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Press Release Anglers’ delight as algal blooms breakthrough highlights innovative science
Millions of fish-deaths caused by toxic Prymnesium algal blooms could be prevented with the application of a household chemical best known for bleaching hair, breakthrough research has revealed
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