Professor George Lomonossoff has been named as the recipient of the 2015 Colworth Prize Lecture

Professor Ray Dixon has been working with Chinese scientists to genetically engineer bacteria that could reduce farmers’ reliance on industrial nitrogen (N) fertilisers

Professor Sir David Hopwood has been named in a Society of Biology poll of influential scientists

Plant geneticists from Norwich’s John Innes Centre working with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered how the memory of cold, so important for flowering, is erased every generation in plants

Plant scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new, high-yielding, disease-resistant crop varieties

A mild 2013/14 winter has led to an explosion in the number and reach of the Spanish Slug in Great Britain

Scientists studying how bacteria produce spores have made a double discovery - they have identified the mystery signaling molecule that orchestrates the process of sporulation and also the unique way in which it works

The John Innes Centre has recently completed an oral history project with a grant from the East of England Regional Archives Council (EERAC)

The genetic mechanism controlling wheat breeding has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the John Innes Centre