Two decades of pGreen
Twenty years ago, a new technology was developed here at the John Innes Centre, which revolutionised plant transformation and genetic engineering
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Blog Multicellularity: How and why cells communicate
Matthew Johnston is a Phd student in the Dr Christine Faulkner lab. His research focuses on cell-to-cell communication in plants, so we asked Matt, how and why do cells communicate?
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Press Release Research unearths the science behind the smell of spring
You may not have heard of geosmin but, wherever you may be on this planet, it is highly likely that you’d recognise its smell. New research by scientists in Sweden and the UK has helped to explain why it exists
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Press Release How three genes rule plant symbioses
For billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and lakes. Then 450 million years ago the first plants colonised land, evolving in the process multiple types of beneficial relationships with microbes in the soil
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Press Release How plants are built to be strong and responsive
Researchers have solved the long-standing mystery of how plants control the arrangement of their cellulose fibres to grow, support themselves and store fixed carbon from the atmosphere
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News Vernalization study defines additional phase in universal epigenetic mechanism
In many plants the timing of flowering is controlled by a range of environmental and molecular signals. One of these signals, prolonged cold, aligns flowering with spring in a process known as vernalization
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News Dramatic transition in Streptomyces life cycle explained in new discovery
A new study using the model species Streptomyces venezuelae has shown that c-di-GMP intervenes later in development to control the differentiation of the reproductive hyphae into spores
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Press Release Nature’s secret recipe for making leaves
The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us has been revealed in research
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News Research uncovers first evidence of RNA-triggered phase separation
It is understood that a process called Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) plays an important role in the formation of membraneless organelles, but how is this important process regulated?
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