Revealed: a central signal sorting hub in plants
Plants growing in the wild constantly sense and respond to a multitude of signals by appropriately coordinating biological processes
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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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News Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal crops moves a step closer
A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team, bringing us one step closer to realising the goal of engineering a range of crops to fix their own nitrogen
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News Leaves possess a molecular compass
Leaves provide us with food, forest canopies and football fields. Every leaf grows from only a few cells. But what guides these cells to become the leaf shapes we recognise in the natural world?
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Press Release Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus
The complete sequence of the huge wheat genome has been published, which will accelerate innovation in breeding resilient and disease resistant crops to feed a growing global population
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Blog A craft brewery road-trip around Canada
In the summer of 2015 I went to Prince Edward Island, on the Eastern coastline of Canada for my PIPS* placement to research the growing craft brewing industry.
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Blog Collaborat-iron
As a child growing up in a middle-class family in the rural Indian village of Kanpur I was fascinated by the universe.
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Blog Nanopore sequencing for plant disease diagnostics in Ethiopia
Following extensive training at the John Innes Centre, our visiting scientist Abel Debebe Mitiku will lead the deployment of the first real-time, mobile diagnostics platform for wheat yellow rust in Ethiopia this summer.
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News Mother knows best – how plants help offspring by passing on seasonal clues
New research has delved into the genetic memory systems through which plants pass seasonal information down to their seeds to give them the best chance of reproductive success
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