Excellence in plant and microbial science
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nutrition for Development and representatives from United Against Malnutrition & Hunger visited the Norwich Research Park, to see how scientists are finding homegrown scientific innovations to help solve this longstanding local and global problem.
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Researchers from the John Innes Centre and the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology call for biofortification to play an integrated role in national and international food strategies to relieve the global problem of hidden hunger
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A new cutting-edge food research programme which brings together world-leading researchers from institutions across Ireland and the UK to tackle food system transformation has been launched
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The John Innes Centre will play a leading role in driving a global food security initiative announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
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An assessment of the John Innes Centre’s socio-economic impact highlights substantial contributions to both the UK and global economy, with over £15 returned to the UK economy for every £1 invested in research. Socio-economic impact has been quantified in an independent report which highlights our position as a global leader in bioscience research, training, and...
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By the end of this century, it is expected that the UK will be up to 4°C warmer but how will plants respond to these changes?
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Crops often have multiple genomes hybridised from their parents, a condition known as polyploidy and a major route to the formation of new species in plants and an important way of improving agronomic traits in crops
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Newly appointed Agri-Innovation Minister Jo Churchill MP visited the John Innes Centre to find out more about the impact delivered through our research, particularly generating resources to support crop breeding in the UK
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We asked Olivier Hamant, Editor-in-chief of Quantitative Plant Biology to give us his thoughts on how the community can work together to face the climate crisis
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