Soil is the most important natural resource we have and we are losing it at an alarming rate through degradation, erosion and desertification - much quicker than we can replace it

At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team

Genotyping is looking at specific, differences within a population of plants, and within specific areas of their genome, so that you can then use those selected areas of a plant’s genome in plant breeding

Recent work between plant pathologists at the John Innes Centre and plant breeding companies in the UK and Nepal are a great example of why sharing the knowledge we gain is an important part of being a scientist

Microbial science may look at the microscopic, but the breadth of microbial research being done here at the John Innes Centre is massive, so here’s an A-Z covering some of it

With plant research stretching from the genetic to the gigantic, we thought it would be worth creating an A-Z of some of the key pieces of work being done here