Researchers 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

The 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

A 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

Healthy 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

A Chinese-UK collaboration investigating medicinally important compounds in plants has been further strengthened by Royal Society funding

Professor Dame Caroline Dean (FRS) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Twenty years ago, a new technology was developed here at the John Innes Centre, which revolutionised plant transformation and genetic engineering

John Innes Centre student Anna Backhaus has received international recognition for her outstanding contribution to wheat research

The successful CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS) was boosted today by the signing of a new five-year agreement between the three partner institutes in Beijing, Shanghai and Norwich