The John Innes Centre has recently entered into a partnership with the US Dept of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Energy (DOE) to study the genome of the grass Brachypodium as part of the Joint Genome Institute’s Community Sequencing Programme

Research published in the journal Nature reveals how scientists at the John Innes Centre and Washington State University, USA have managed to trigger nodulation in legumes, a key element of the nitrogen fixing process, without the bacteria normally necessary

Antibiotic resistance is a major problem worldwide and there is an urgent need for new antibiotics to be developed

What have Black-eyed peas got to do with nanotechnology?

A team of scientists led by Dr Graham Moore have a completely new understanding of the structure of a gene complex in wheat that controls the pairing of its chromosomes, knowledge of which has the potential to revolutionise wheat breeding