Insights into pathogen-host interaction offer a clue to protecting crops from blast
A mechanism used by a fungal pathogen to promote spread of the devastating cereal crop disease, blast, has been revealed in fine detail
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News Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases
An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration.
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Blog Streptomyces formicae – a source of new antibiotics? Introducing Dr Rebecca Devine
Antibiotic-producing bacteria can be found in lots of places, like deserts, oceans and even in association with some insects like leaf-cutter ants. We like to look in under-explored environments to find new strains of Streptomyces that make new antibiotics
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Blog Zombie plants, witches’ brooms and the cauldron of curious science
Carrots, ants, snails, strawberries, mice, and major cereal crops are just a few of the many organisms that can be turned into zombies: kept alive on life support under the manipulating spell of parasites
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Blog Antibiotics from ants revisited; Discovering formicamycins
Back in 2013, then Dr Matt Hutchings was working at the UEA, collaborating with Mervyn Bibb to manipulate the soil bacteria Actinomycetes in the hope of making new antibiotics. Eight years later, now Professor Matt Hutchings has joined us here at the John Innes Centre, we sat down with Matt for an update
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Press Release Flea beetle fight gets fresh funding injection
Researchers working to combat a devastating pest of oilseed rape have been supported by a fresh injection of funds
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News Research institutes launch innovative collaboration to combat crop disease
An ambitious collaboration between the John Innes Centre and the University of Hertfordshire will fast track urgently needed solutions to the growing problem of crop diseases
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Press Release Landmark field trials show potential of gene-editing
Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the “immense potential” of gene editing technology, say researchers
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Blog Rapidly diagnosing plant diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa; Introducing James Canham
James Canham is a PhD student who used his PiPs placement at Pwani University in Kenya to establish a new research consortium, the success of which has helped earn him a UEA Engagement Award
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