Collaboration between leading scientists in the UK and India will focus on tackling global food shortages with research into increasing crop yields and improving disease and drought resistance

Scientists have shown that genes from an alga which is capable of very efficient photosynthesis can function properly when introduced into Arabidopsis, a plant commonly used for scientific experiments

For over 10,000 years, farmers have selected crops they wanted to breed on their characteristics

Scientists in Professor Claire Domoney’s lab have identified a gene involved in a fundamental process underlying plant growth, and they hope that knowledge of this gene will inform the breeding of healthier, higher yielding crops, including pea

Scientists investigating how to control take-all, a fungus that lives in soil and infects wheat roots to cause disease, have discovered that different varieties of wheat have distinct and lasting impacts on the health of the soil in which they are grown

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have developed peas that will help animals absorb more protein from their diet

To grow more food more sustainably we need to make plants better at recruiting nutrients and water from soil to seed, according to 12 leading plant scientists writing in Nature

Scientific innovation in plant breeding was given a boost this week when a ruling by the European Patent Office confirmed the patent on John Innes Centre’s Beneforte Broccoli is valid and enforceable

Scientists are collaborating with researchers in India on projects designed to enhance and safeguard food production overseas and in the UK