The winter weather window that costs UK rapeseed growers millions
UK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window
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Blog Improving the iron content of Tanzanian beans
In 2017, Mashamba Philipo attended the AfriPlantSci Summer School in Arusha, where he heard Dr Janneke Balk lecture on iron in crops. Now is working on improving the iron content in Tanzanian beans, hoping to improve the health of his community back home
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News Big data harvesting tool will deliver smart farming
Researchers from across Norwich Research Park have launched a new system for organising vast datasets on climate and crops
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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 Ladybird, ladybird found a new home
Insect-studying researchers have thanked the public for their help in establishing a thriving new colony of ladybirds at the John Innes Centre
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Press Release Space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement
Technology first used by NASA to grow plants extra-terrestrially is fast tracking improvements in a range of crops, by 'speed-breeding'
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Blog Balancing species conservation with cereal Rust resilience
Re-planting of Barberry bushes might be the last chance to save the endangered Barberry Carpet Moth (Pareulype berberata), but suggested conservation methods could come at the cost of a UK cereal crop epidemic
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Blog Detoxifying the plant with the poisonous past
Grass pea, the crop with the curse, is set for a major change in reputation thousands of years after it was first cultivated.
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Press Release Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
The John Innes Centre has joined a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms
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