Three teams of UK and USA researchers will begin a programme of novel research to revolutionise current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting manufactured fertilisers

Let scientists keep the lab coat, goggles and pipette. Playing a Facebook game as simple as Candy Crush is enough to take part in active research to help save the ash tree

New research could help explain the dramatic effect on soil health and yield of crop rotation

Crop geneticist Dr Cristobal Uauy has been awarded tenure at the John Innes Centre in Norwich after successfully completing a five-year tenure track

New research shows that to prevent starvation at night, plants perform accurate arithmetic division

An antibiotic has been found to stimulate its own production

Professor Cathie Martin, plant biologist and editor-in-chief of the American monthly journal The Plant Cell, has been made an MBE in recognition of her work

The first sequence data for a survivor of the ash dieback epidemic has been made available by scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) as part of a research collaboration led by the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory

Work undertaken at the John Innes Centre describes new Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) protocols to identify and footprint protein-DNA interactions in a cost effective and semi-automated way