The image of Gregor Mendel as a man leading a life isolated from the rest of the world combining scientific experiments with monastic duties needs to be revised according to new evidence which has been uncovered by Peter van Dijk and Noel Ellis

Professor Anne Osbourn has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of the US plant-based technology company Calyxt

Researchers have found a gene in wheat that acts to promote rust fungal infection. Disrupting the function of this gene provides resistance to two of the most economically damaging diseases of wheat worldwide - yellow and stem rust

A question puzzling molecular biologists concerns how mRNA processing sites are precisely recognised; particularly how are they distinguished from surrounding sites with similar sequence content?

A new UK centre of excellence is being set up by partners on the Norwich Research Park to improve global food security which is threatened by the effects of climate change

Two talented early-career scientists have won £2.5m funding from the global health charity Wellcome Trust, to carry forward their influential research at the John Innes Centre

Professor Dale Sanders has received the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) International Science and Technology Cooperation Award

John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust

A leading John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues have been awarded European funding to develop innovative molecular solutions to combat a damaging sugar beet virus