Green revolution genes promise additional yield
Untangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated, but potentially rewarding puzzle
Read the storyUntangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated, but potentially rewarding puzzle
Read the storyPlants 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.
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre have developed a variety of wheat that contains high levels of iron
Read the storyProfessor 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
Read the storyScientists 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
Read the storyThe 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)
Read the story2017 marks 50 years since the John Innes Institute moved from Bayfordbury near Hertford to its new home, on Colney Lane in south Norwich
Read the storyResearch led by scientists at the John Innes Centre has solved a long-standing mystery by deducing how and why strange yet colourful structures called 'anthocyanic vacuolar inclusions' occur in some plants
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre are developing a new line of fast-growing sprouting broccoli that goes from seed to harvest in 8-10 weeks
Read the story