A new project will look at how engineering biology technologies can be developed and used to help feed a growing population while protecting crops against climate change-related catastrophes and pests. The project will focus on potatoes, a staple crop for millions of people. 

Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colourful example of biodiversity

A far-reaching study has cast doubt on statistical methods used to identify long distance signalling networks in plants

Welcome to the latest e-edition of Advances – the John Innes Centre magazine. After a short publication pause, we are back, with a magazine full of scientific achievements.

The John Innes Centre has joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), alongside more than 700 research organisations, funders and professional societies, to implement reform in the assessment of research, researchers, and research organisations.

Researchers have made an important breakthrough in unlocking the power of epigenetic variation in crop breeding

The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might tell us something new about how life works

Professor Noel Ellis has been awarded a prestigious honour in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the legacy of the ‘Father of Genetics’, Gregor Mendel

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition for Development and representatives from United Against Malnutrition & Hunger visited the Norwich Research Park, to see how scientists are finding homegrown scientific innovations to help solve this longstanding local and global problem.