Detoxifying the plant with the poisonous past
Grass pea, the crop with the curse, is set for a major change in reputation thousands of years after it was first cultivated.
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Press Release Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
The John Innes Centre has joined a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms
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News Early career researchers are the future of a European Research Area
The John Innes Centre has formed an alliance with two other leading plant science institutes to promote the vision of a pan-continental European Research Area
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Press Release John Innes Centre wins funding for grass pea project in Sub-Saharan Africa
A ground-breaking John Innes Centre project to cultivate grass pea in drought-prone areas has been awarded £1.2m funding.
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Press Release Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus
The complete sequence of the huge wheat genome has been published, which will accelerate innovation in breeding resilient and disease resistant crops to feed a growing global population
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Blog A craft brewery road-trip around Canada
In the summer of 2015 I went to Prince Edward Island, on the Eastern coastline of Canada for my PIPS* placement to research the growing craft brewing industry.
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News Researcher lands major European grant for ambitious project
Leading John Innes Centre researcher Dr Xiaoqi Feng has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
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News Ministerial tribute for CEPAMS on Field trip to China
Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Mark Field MP this week acknowledged the wonderful example of a global partnership between the John Innes Centre and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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Blog CEPAMS symposium 2018
An early start from Norwich Airport for a flight to Amsterdam and the onward journey to Beijing begins with a wait as the short hop to the Netherlands is slightly delayed by mist.
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