Plants growing in the wild constantly sense and respond to a multitude of signals by appropriately coordinating biological processes

Two John Innes Centre researchers today reflected on a major career milestone after being awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowships

The John Innes Centre has formed an alliance with two other leading plant science institutes to promote the vision of a pan-continental European Research Area

A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team, bringing us one step closer to realising the goal of engineering a range of crops to fix their own nitrogen

Leaves provide us with food, forest canopies and football fields. Every leaf grows from only a few cells. But what guides these cells to become the leaf shapes we recognise in the natural world?

Leading John Innes Centre researcher Dr Xiaoqi Feng has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Mark Field MP this week acknowledged the wonderful example of a global partnership between the John Innes Centre and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killer

Chemical secrets of a plant used throughout history for its calming effects have been revealed in new research