Scientific innovation in plant breeding was given a boost this week when a ruling by the European Patent Office confirmed the patent on John Innes Centre’s Beneforte Broccoli is valid and enforceable

Kim Findlay, Head of Bioimaging has been awarded the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) Vice President’s Medal for her outstanding contribution to the field of electron microscopy in plant and microbial imaging

A team of scientists have successfully transferred a receptor that recognises bacteria from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana - a dicot, to wheat – a monocot

There’s nowhere to hide for one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases, thanks to a new global surveillance method for tracking the spread of Yellow Rust based on its DNA

Dr Sarah O’Connor has produced Strictosidine in yeast, one of the longest chemical pathways engineered into yeast and is a halfway point to the anti-cancer compounds Vinblastine and Topotecan

Scientists have discovered how plants make valuable natural products we rely on today for use as medicines, flavours and scents

Professor Caroline Dean has been awarded a Women In Science award from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)

Plant scientists in Norwich have scoured the genome sequences of 17 different plant species to find genes that could help produce high-value chemicals on a large scale

The John Innes Centre welcomes five new Project Leaders, in the departments of Crop Genetics and Cell and Developmental Biology