Cells have characteristic sizes in different organisms and in different tissues in the same organism

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

The scientists who recently identified dramatic changes in yellow rust populations affecting wheat in the UK, have just been awarded £1.2 million to develop a new, quicker, cheaper version of their field–based diagnostic tool

New research findings have helped to settle an important debate in the field of epigenetic inheritance

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

Professor Caroline Dean has been awarded a Women In Science award from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)

A poisonous species of mushroom new to Norfolk has been identified by Year 10 Science Camp students at the John Innes Centre, using advanced genetic analysis techniques

Plant scientists have discovered that a non-coding RNA, induced by cold, helps plants flower in spring