New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe

Traffic jams are the curse of the commute, the scourge of the school run and the bane of Bank Holidays. But gridlocked motorists and students of traffic flow may soon be relieved and enlightened thanks to new research into plants

Millions of fish-deaths caused by toxic Prymnesium algal blooms could be prevented with the application of a household chemical best known for bleaching hair, breakthrough research has revealed

Untangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated, but potentially rewarding puzzle

Plants have been used to produce a new vaccine against poliovirus in what is hoped to be a major step towards global eradication of the disease.

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have developed a variety of wheat that contains high levels of iron

Professor Claire Domoney, Head of the Department of Metabolic Biology at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list

Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute, The Sainsbury Laboratory and the European Bioinformatics Institute, report in the journal Genome Research the most accurate and complete DNA sequence analyses of the wheat genome to date

The John Innes Centre have been awarded £77.9m, in a series of new strategic programme investments by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)