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We have launched an open-source image library for journalists, writers and picture editors seeking to bring content on genome-editing and genetic modification to life
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What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related - reach high for the skies?
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Earlier this month we launched the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, a cross-Norwich Research Park collaboration focusing on food security and sustainability. We sat down with Dr Peter Emmrich and Dr Natasha Grist to ask them about the new institute and how they got involved
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An ambitious proposal to create a resistance gene “atlas” as a resource for the international wheat community has been outlined in a new review
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John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust
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Plants can tell the time, but how might that knowledge help improve crop protection and food security?
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A leading John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues have been awarded European funding to develop innovative molecular solutions to combat a damaging sugar beet virus
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A European Court ruling widely interpreted to mean that all gene-edited organisms are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) may not be as prescriptive as many first assumed
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Wheat researchers at the John Innes Centre are pioneering a new technique that promises to improve gene discovery for the globally important crop
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