A team of UK researchers has publicly released the first sequence coverage of the wheat genome

Plant scientists at the John Innes Centre have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids are often more vigorous than their parents

Scientists from the John Innes Centre and the University of Oxford have discovered which genes control the specialised nutrient mining machine that develops on the surface of plant roots

A few grass species provide the bulk of our food supply and new grass crops are being domesticated for sustainable energy and feedstock production

New research from the John Innes Centre on how plants adapt their flowering to climate is also helping to unravel some of the mysteries of how genes are controlled

Scientists have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses

Scientists have uncovered a gene in plants that is responsible for controlling the size of seeds, which could lead to ways of improving crops to help ensure food security in the future

A project to combat a newly emerging disease of barley is being launched, which will pull together the efforts of plant scientists, breeders and industry to prevent this disease establishing and help UK farmers produce barley cost-effectively without additional impact on the environment

An international team of scientists has cracked the problem of pod shatter in brassica crops such as oilseed rape