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

One of the world’s most lethal families of plant viruses has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study that may provide clues to preventing the global spread of the pathogen.

New research has delved into the genetic memory systems through which plants pass seasonal information down to their seeds to give them the best chance of reproductive success

New research has uncovered a surprise link between a common bacterial toxin found in the gut and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Professor Cathie Martin, a project leader in metabolic biology at the John Innes Centre, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society