John Innes Centre scientist Dr Cristobal Uauy has received national recognition for his pioneering work in global wheat breeding programmes

Streptomyces bacteria are today recognised as globally important industrial microbes, producers of most of the world’s antibiotics

Professor Graham Moore and the University of Bristol’s Professor Keith Edwards have been jointly awarded the 2018 Rank Prize in Nutrition (Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry) for their exceptional contribution to wheat research.

Jemima Brinton, a PhD student in her final year at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the PhD Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (MECEA) at the 2017 annual MonoGram meeting in Bristol

Major new strategic investment in the John Innes Centre, in UK science and in global food security. As one of the world’s foremost research institutes, the John Innes Centre has today been awarded £77.9m[1],[2] in a series of new strategic programme investments by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Four new strategic research...

Professor Downie, Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the first Adam Kondorosi prize for advanced scholars, in recognition of his research work over the last 35 years on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes. The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research (named after the late Adam Kondorosi) recognises landmark research...

Professor Allan Downie, Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the first Adam Kondorosi prize for advanced scholars, in recognition of his research work over the last 35 years on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes

At the turn of the century, the idea of a European research programme that would focus entirely on scientific excellence, ignoring political or geographical considerations, seemed to many to be a fantastic pipe dream of the academic community

Plants come in all shapes and sizes – but why, and how?