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Jun
Friday Seminar – ‘Cellular signaling during plant reproduction’
Our next Friday Seminar speaker is Dr Jing-Ke Weng, from the Whitehead Institute
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News MARPLE diagnostics reaches South Asia
Last week 21 researchers from the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and iDE Nepal, took part in a workshop to equip them with the most advanced genetic testing methodology for strain-level diagnostics of the deadly wheat yellow rust fungus.
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News Wheat-soil interaction offers route to sustainable agriculture
Understanding how wheat roots can fine tune the activity of soil microbes for the benefit of agriculture is the focus of an international collaboration starting this spring
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News International collaboration aims high in Nepal
An ambitious international partnership will investigate the forests and farmlands of Nepal as a bio-diverse hotspot to inform global practices in combatting pathogens and pests.
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Blog Erasmus experience to a plant science PhD; Introducing Marina Millan-Blanquez
We had a chat with PhD student Marina about her experience of the Erasmus+ programme, her research project and working at the John Innes Centre.
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Press Release Scientists solve the grass leaf conundrum
Grass is cut regularly by our mowers and grazed on by cows and sheep, yet continues to grow back. The secret to its remarkable regenerative powers lies in part in the shape of its leaves, but how that shape arises has been a topic of longstanding debate
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News Professor Dale Sanders receives China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award
John Innes Centre Director, Professor Dale Sanders has been honoured with one of China’s most prestigious awards in recognition of his work in establishing world leading scientific collaborations
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Blog The complexity of the climate crisis calls for quantitative thinking and transdisciplinary cooperation
We asked Olivier Hamant, Editor-in-chief of Quantitative Plant Biology to give us his thoughts on how the community can work together to face the climate crisis
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Press Release How bread wheat got its gluten: Tracing the impact of a long-lost relative on modern bread wheat
Genetic detective work has uncovered an obscure ancestor of modern bread wheat, in a finding similar to uncovering a famous long-lost relative through DNA analysis in humans
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