A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel

A team has identified a key gene that was transferred from a Sicilian plant into a close relative in Britain, showing how genetic cross-talk between species can be important for evolution

A breakthrough by scientists at the University of East Anglia could pave the way for new drugs that protect the human immune system from bacterial disease

Scientists have expressed genes from snapdragon in tomatoes to grow purple tomatoes high in health-protecting anthocyanins

Fruit breeding was important in shaping the early history of the John Innes Institute

New research from the John Innes Centre and the Central Science Laboratory could help breeders to develop pea varieties able to withstand drought stress and climate change

A new project is being launched at the John Innes Centre in Norwich to help geneticists understand how plants grow

For any multicellular organism to work, it is essential that one cell can talk to another

The beauty of nature is partly due to the uniformity of leaf and flower size in individual plants, and scientists have discovered how plants arrive at these aesthetic proportions