Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyPlants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyThe process by which plants use a prolonged cold period – winter – to promote flowering is known as vernalization
Read the storyResearchers have characterised a gene from an early flowering Arabidopsis mutant and showed that the mutated gene encodes a protein that modifies chromatin - that is it affects the chemical modifications of the histone proteins that surround the DNA in our cells
Read the storyThe United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $650,000 grant for the study of emmer wheat – one of the very first cereals to be cultivated in agriculture
Read the storySarah Wilmot re-visits the history of the ‘People’s Choice’ for ‘Plant of the Decade’; Streptocarpus and the breeding of it here at the John Innes, celebrating the contributions of two Alumni from our horticulture team
Read the storyTobin Florio is a Science Technician in the Professor Cristobal Uauy lab by day and an artist by night. We caught up with him to ask how he is bringing these two passions together and providing scientific illustrations for published papers
Read the storyWe conclude our spring into spring week looking at the history of research into the tulip, with the study of their chromosomes and the story of how they inspired one of modern day's leading scientists
Read the storyWith the John Innes tulip collection growing, attention turns to the mystery of tulip breakage. Sarah Wilmot returns with Part 2 of our history of tulip research at the John Innes Centre
Read the storyProfessor Dame Caroline Dean (FRS) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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