A 120-year debate on how nitrogen-fixing bacteria are able to breach the cell walls of legumes has been settled after paper published by John Innes Centre scientists reports that plants themselves allow bacteria in

Scientists have made public all the data they have so far on the genetic blueprint of medicinal plants and what beneficial properties are encoded by the genes identified

Scientists have worked out the structure of a class of enzyme that has been genetically validated as a new drug target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a pathogenic bacterium which is responsible for 2 million tuberculosis deaths worldwide each year

Dr Mark Banfield and his group have deciphered the structures of protein molecules used by some of the most destructive plant pathogens to promote host infection

New and more virulent crop diseases are predicted to emerge as a result of climate change

The genome of Medicago, a close relative of alfalfa and a long-established model for the study of legume biology, has been sequenced by an international team of scientists, capturing around 94% of its genes

Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia are pioneering a powerful combination of computer modelling and experimental genetics to work out how the complex shapes of organs found in nature are produced by the interacting actions of genes

Pathogens can alter their hosts, for example malaria parasites can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, but how they do it has remained a mystery

Professor Cathie Martin's contribution to science has been recognised by election to the membership of a leading European life sciences organisation, EMBO