Field trials of high iron wheat reap promising first harvest results
Wheat that has been biofortified to produce white flour with increased iron has progressed successfully through the first season of field trials
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Blog From Kale to Kathmandu
Recent work between plant pathologists at the John Innes Centre and plant breeding companies in the UK and Nepal are a great example of why sharing the knowledge we gain is an important part of being a scientist
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Blog From PhD to policy; one student’s career path
After four years endeavour, Nicola Capstaff has just submitted her PhD thesis. Before she could relax and enjoy the moment, we asked her what she has done and what she wants to do next? Her answer was a move into scientific policy
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Blog Sustainability and Food Security; PhD Student Joshua Joyce is off to the Youth Ag Summit
PhD student Joshua Joyce is off to Brasilia for the Youth Ag Summit this week, we caught up with him before he boarded his flight to find out what it was all about
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Press Release Wheat and the holy grail of crop transformation
Researchers have developed an open source, reproducible Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the spring wheat cultivar Fielder
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News Family of crop viruses revealed at high resolution for the first time
For the first-time we can take a molecular-level look at one of the world’s deadliest crop killers; Luteoviridae
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Blog A – Z Microbial Science
Microbial science may look at the microscopic, but the breadth of microbial research being done here at the John Innes Centre is massive, so here’s an A-Z covering some of it
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Blog A – Z of Plant Science
With plant research stretching from the genetic to the gigantic, we thought it would be worth creating an A-Z of some of the key pieces of work being done here
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Blog A day in the life of the Entomology and Insectary Department
Where there are plants, there are insects. Our Entomology Department houses a large-range of insects and conducts insect-related research with an overarching aim to help tackle the issue of global food production
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