Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Dr Hassan Salem will be joining the John Innes Centre in early 2026.

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute are launching one of the first human trials of gene edited food, to understand whether biofortifying tomatoes in this way leads to higher levels of vitamin D in the blood after people have eaten them

John Innes Centre group leader, Professor Yiliang Ding, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship

The John Innes Centre has been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK. The new Global Talent Fund, an investment in Britain’s future prosperity and economic growth, is designed to attract leading researchers in eight high...

Following the news that Parliament has passed the secondary legislation to implement the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act for plants in England, we welcome the benefits this offers, and the increased opportunities for plant and microbial science to improve the health of plants, people and the planet. 

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics.  Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and genetics to map the diversity of a globally important pea collection – revealing secrets behind the traits that Mendel made famous and uncovering agriculturally useful genetic diversity on an unprecedented scale

Following an international search, Professor Cristóbal Uauy has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. Professor Uauy is internationally recognised for his significant contribution to the development of resources and tools available to the wheat research community which allow for the rapid identification of genes for key traits.

An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to build resistance to drugs

Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes