New Oak Foundation award helps future-proof scientific research facilities
Oak Foundation has awarded £750,000 to support the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory’s Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP3) vision
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News Beetles build with a yellow pigment gene
More than 80 years ago scientists discovered that differences in yellow pigmentation were critical to courtship success and failure for fruit flies. New research has added a deeper perspective to the study of Yellow, showing how in tortoise beetles this protein has been co-opted as a building material to house symbiotic bacteria.
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News Advances Summer 2026 – digital edition now available
The 39th edition of the John Innes Centre Advances magazine is now available online. This new edition highlights our commitment to translating knowledge into real-world impact, exploring how science benefits plants, people and planet
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News Rewiggle Podcast: starring Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett
The chair of our Governing Council, Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett, is featured on the newly launched rewiggle podcast, to discuss the impact of the world-leading science taking place at the John Innes Centre
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News ‘Sunshine’ tomato one step closer to market
The first marketing notice for a precision bred tomato in England has now been approved, moving the biofortified ‘Sunshine’ tomato developed at the John Innes Centre closer to commercialisation.
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News A new rapid test helping Ethiopian researchers stay ahead of a wheat disease threat
Ethiopian researchers are using a new diagnostic test created by John Innes Centre researchers to identify wheat blast, a growing wheat disease threat. The system provides a simple test that can confirm within just 90 minutes whether the infected material contains wheat blast, a devastating disease that spreads on the wind and can cause up to 100% losses in severe outbreaks
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News Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to John Innes Centre group leader
Professor Dame Caroline Dean FRS has been given a lifetime achievement award by the international Arabidopsis research community
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News The Wolfson Foundation invests £1.6m in innovative plant growth systems
The John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) are delighted to announce a £1.6 million investment from the Wolfson Foundation, supporting a next-generation glasshouse, insectary, and horticultural research facility
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News Biofilm clue opens route to anti-infection treatments of the future
A multidisciplinary study has uncovered a critical component in the formation of biofilms, the complex structures used by bacteria to colonise surfaces. The research may have implications for future infection treatments including for people with cystic fibrosis
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