Scientists have created a new mobile surveillance technique to rapidly diagnose one of agriculture’s oldest enemies - wheat rusts

What if, under certain environmental conditions, production of these molecules gave a selection advantage to Streptomyces formicae: could the organism adapt (evolve) rapidly, maybe even through a single mutation, to produce much higher levels of the formicapyridines?

Scientists at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), along with partners at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and elsewhere warn that we are not fully prepared to tackle the rise in new epidemics of plant diseases

A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us

John Innes Centre researcher Dr Diane Saunders has received a major award for her pioneering work in helping to combat global crop pathogens

Field trials of wheat biofortified to produce white flour with extra iron have begun following approval by the Government

John Innes Centre researcher Dr Diane Saunders has been selected as one of 12 finalists in the BBSRC Innovator of the Year Competition 2019

A team of young innovators based on the Norwich Research Park have made the final of the BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2019 Awards

Four projects involving the John Innes Centre and research partners in China have been launched to improve crops and explore anti-cancer properties in plants