Technology first used by NASA to grow plants extra-terrestrially is fast tracking improvements in a range of crops

Cells are the building blocks of life that grow and divide to create all living things.

Researchers have found an important class of sugars in algae, that could lead to a better understanding of algal blooms.

A major grant to fund curiosity-driven research into plant communication has been awarded to a John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues from two European institutes

The OpenMTA, a new legal tool to enable open exchange of biological materials launched.

The John Innes Centre has joined a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms

A ground-breaking John Innes Centre project to cultivate grass pea in drought-prone areas has been awarded £1.2m funding.

The complete sequence of the huge wheat genome has been published

A drug discovery tool, the first of its kind, has been launched in a fresh bid to revitalise the urgent search for new antibiotics