Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyPlants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyResearchers have characterised a gene from an early flowering Arabidopsis mutant and showed that the mutated gene encodes a protein that modifies chromatin - that is it affects the chemical modifications of the histone proteins that surround the DNA in our cells
Read the storyThe United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $650,000 grant for the study of emmer wheat – one of the very first cereals to be cultivated in agriculture
Read the storyA new paper by Dr Xiaofeng Fang from the Professor Caroline Dean lab has been able to show how proteins that shape chromatin and RNA processing machinery physically interact
Read the storyHealthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP³) is our vision for achieving a safer, healthier and more sustainable future through the power of plant and microbial science
Read the storyA Chinese-UK collaboration investigating medicinally important compounds in plants has been further strengthened by Royal Society funding
Read the storyProfessor Dame Caroline Dean (FRS) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Read the storyTwenty years ago, a new technology was developed here at the John Innes Centre, which revolutionised plant transformation and genetic engineering
Read the storyJohn Innes Centre student Anna Backhaus has received international recognition for her outstanding contribution to wheat research
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