We are delighted to announce that Lesley Mitchenall has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the first Research Institute Technician Awards

As the weather cools in autumn, you may notice the process of condensation, with water droplets forming on windows. Researchers have found that a similar process – biophysical condensation - is happening inside plants and allows them to sense fluctuating temperatures

Professor Dale Sanders has announced his intention to retire in March 2023, after more than a decade as Director of the John Innes Centre

Environment Secretary George Eustice announces changes to the regulation of gene edited crop trials for research purposes

Streptomycetes are the richest source of antibiotics, anticancer agents and immunosuppressants used in human and veterinary medicine. The production of these important bioactive molecules is often intimately linked with the life cycle of this versatile genus of bacteria

When cells divide, replicated chromosomes carrying DNA separate and move to daughter cells a process essential in all domains of life to ensure each daughter cell inherits a full copy of the genetic information of the parent

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett has been announced as the next Chair of the John Innes Centre’s Governing Council

Responding to last week’s National Food Strategy, leading players along the length of the UK’s crop improvement pipeline, from fundamental and applied genetic science to commercial plant breeding, have issued a joint call on the Government to take action to harness the unique contribution of plant genetics in securing a more sustainable food future

Researchers led by Professor Caroline Dean have uncovered the genetic basis for variations in the vernalization response shown by plants growing in very different climates, linking epigenetic mechanisms with evolutionary change