A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world on its path to becoming the iconic crop that today sustains a global population of eight billion

Insights into the function of DNA Topoisomerase VI (Topo VI) may provide a springboard for drug discovery and crop protection

Professor Martin Howard has been elected as a member of the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)

Questions on flower colour posed more than a century ago have been resolved by new research

The Governing Council of the John Innes Centre has been strengthened with the appointment of three new members. We are thrilled to welcome Professor Jane Langdale, Professor Julian Hibberd and Professor Mark Searcey to the institute. Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chair of the John Innes Centre’s Governing Council, said: “I am delighted to welcome the new...

An innovative project to re-purpose existing drugs for their potential as antibiotics has uncovered a highly promising candidate with a potent and unique way of killing drug resistant bacteria

An important breakthrough in efforts to halt the advance of wheat blast, an emerging threat to international food security, has come from a surprising source

Two new studies which appear in Molecular Cell reveal core principles of how chromatin and transcription interconnect to regulate gene expression. The work was focused on FLC, a gene that determines developmental timing in plants. But the principle that emerges, of the balance between transcription termination and anti-termination regulating gene expression, is relevant to gene...

The John Innes Centre has joined more than 25 leading research organisations in signing an environmental sustainability concordat. The Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice, hosted by Wellcome commits signatories and supporters to embedding environmental sustainability into all research and innovation practice. The aim of the concordat is to ensure research and...