Natural factories
Plants and microbes produce a wide spectrum of natural products, which give them their huge range of colours, flavours and scents
Read the storyPlants and microbes produce a wide spectrum of natural products, which give them their huge range of colours, flavours and scents
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia are pioneering a powerful combination of computer modelling and experimental genetics to work out how the complex shapes of organs found in nature are produced by the interacting actions of genes
Read the storyGardeners could help maintain bumblebee populations by growing plants with red flowers or flowers with stripes along the veins, according to field observations of the common snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, at the John Innes Centre in the UK
Read the storyPlant scientists at the John Innes Centre have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids are often more vigorous than their parents
Read the storyA breakthrough by scientists at the University of East Anglia could pave the way for new drugs that protect the human immune system from bacterial disease
Read the storyJohn Innes Centre scientists have found that plants may cluster the genes needed to make defence chemicals
Read the storyFor any multicellular organism to work, it is essential that one cell can talk to another
Read the storyScientists have made an important advance in understanding the genetic processes that give flowers, leaves and plants their bright colours
Read the storyA team of scientists led by Professor Nick Harberd have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment
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