Many plants need to avoid flowering in the autumn, even if conditions are favourable, otherwise they would perish in winter

A new book edited by a leading John Innes Centre scientist highlights the importance of physical, mathematical and computational approaches to plant biology

John Innes Centre researcher Dr Xiaoqi Feng receives a prestigious award reserved for Europe’s most promising young researchers

European plant and life sciences research centres and institutes endorse a position paper that calls upon European policy makers to safeguard gene-editing technologies.

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?