The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park partners and British Sugar have secured significant new funding to develop innovative gene editing approaches to protect the British sugar beet crop against potentially catastrophic losses to virus yellows disease

The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Food and Farming Minister at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra) visited Norwich Research Park to see how technologies such as gene editing can help farmers to grow more nutritious, disease resistant and environmentally sustainable crops

Dr Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing as a tool for developing more nutritious, sustainable and resilient wheat, in a new series of Royal Society videos featuring Professor Brian Cox. 

Humans are attracted to symmetry: in our buildings, our gardens, in our potential partners. For plants, the symmetrical shapes of organs are a matter of survival because the form directly impacts the function

In the next of our series of interviews with JIC alumni, we spoke to Dr Filomena De Lucia, about her experience of working at the John Innes Centre and her career journey from there. After gaining specific expertise in the field of chromatin and epigenetics during her PhD at the University of Naples, Italy, in...

The pioneering research of Dr Yiliang Ding investigating the structure and function of RNA in living cells has been recognised with a major internationally recognised award

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology call for biofortification to play an integrated role in national and international food strategies to relieve the global problem of hidden hunger

It is with heavy hearts that we bid farewell to a pioneering scientist, esteemed colleague, and a true gentleman, Professor Phil Dale OBE. Phil’s remarkable journey in the field of agriculture spanned decades, leaving an indelible mark on the scientific community. His passing on December 6th, 2023, at the age of 78, has left a...

Dr Michael Webster has been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, a prestigious award that will enable his group at the John Innes Centre to take their research into the molecular workings of photosynthesis and genes in an exciting new direction. Dr Webster, a group leader, was recently named among 75 promising research leaders who...