Key role for calcium release in root development
A study by researchers at the John Innes Centre has discovered that calcium plays a key role in primary root development
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Press Release Carnivorous plant study captures universal rules of leaf making
The team used a combination of 3D imaging, cell and clonal analysis and computational modelling to understand how carnivorous plant traps are shaped, showing how Utricularia gibba traps grow from a near spherical ball of cells into a mature trap capable of capturing prey
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News The proteins that maintain formicamycin biosynthesis fidelity
What if, under certain environmental conditions, production of these molecules gave a selection advantage to Streptomyces formicae: could the organism adapt (evolve) rapidly, maybe even through a single mutation, to produce much higher levels of the formicapyridines?
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Press Release Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids are made
Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
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News New tool reveals how the different shapes of organisms grow
A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us
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Press Release How Capsella followed its lonely heart
The Brassicaceae plant family boasts a stunning diversity of fruit shapes. But even in this cosmopolitan company the heart-shaped seed pods of the Capsella genus stand out
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Press Release Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization
New evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations
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Press Release Snapdragon enters the genomic age
Researchers have successfully assembled a near-complete genome sequence of the popular plant model system Antirrhinum majus
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News New angle on how cells use geometry to control their size
Research by John Innes Centre scientists reveals how cells use geometrical information to control key developmental processes such as the coordination between cell growth and cell division
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