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News A new rapid test helping Ethiopian researchers stay ahead of a wheat disease threat
Ethiopian researchers are using a new diagnostic test created by John Innes Centre researchers to identify wheat blast, a growing wheat disease threat. The system provides a simple test that can confirm within just 90 minutes whether the infected material contains wheat blast, a devastating disease that spreads on the wind and can cause up to 100% losses in severe outbreaks
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News Arabidopsis research community makes lifetime award to John Innes Centre group leader
Professor Dame Caroline Dean FRS has been given a lifetime achievement award by the international Arabidopsis research community
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16 SepEvent Innes Lecture 2026 – The Potato: between science and peasant knowledge
The Innes Lecture series is a free annual public talk on the history of science, with themes that have synergies with John Innes Centre research past and present. This year’s speaker is food historian Professor Rebecca Earle from the University of Warwick who will be talking about her research into the potato. There will also be a...
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