Excellence in plant and microbial science
A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a clue about how nature controls fundamental evolutionary change in all species.
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This blog was originally published on Erica's blog; Scientist Erica and has been reproduced here with her consent.
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In February 2017, Professor George Lomonossoff and Dr Ian Gibson revived a hundred-year relationship between the John Innes Centre and St Petersburg, Russia.
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A sophisticated mechanism that allows plant roots to quickly respond to changes in soil conditions has been identified by an international research team
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Untangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated, but potentially rewarding puzzle
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre have developed a variety of wheat that contains high levels of iron
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute, The Sainsbury Laboratory and the European Bioinformatics Institute, report in the journal Genome Research the most accurate and complete DNA sequence analyses of the wheat genome to date
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Plants come in all shapes and sizes – but why, and how?
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Scientists have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of growth and that this characteristic is essential for producing complex plant shapes
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