Excellence in plant and microbial science
Last month we were proud to announce that PhD student Anna Backhaus, was the recipient of a prestigious Women in Triticum (WIT) award. Here, Anna reflects on the award and an interrupted but still memorable trip to Mexico – and offers some advice for colleagues
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A Chinese-UK collaboration investigating medicinally important compounds in plants has been further strengthened by Royal Society funding
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Virtual keynote and panel celebrating the accomplishments of women working in wheat with keynote by Barbara Stinson, president of the World Food Prize Foundation
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Researchers have taken positive steps towards using plant virus-based particles for the treatment of human autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis
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The successful CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS) was boosted today by the signing of a new five-year agreement between the three partner institutes in Beijing, Shanghai and Norwich
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We caught up with former John Innes Centre PhD student and Postdoc Tom van den Boogaart to see where his career has taken him so far and find out what advice he would give to scientists considering the same
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Strict national measures have been implemented to safeguard the UK from a range of plant health threats, in particular the devastating disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa
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Come and find out about scientific research in Africa and how you can collaborate with scientists in Africa
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Dame Helen Mirren has helped renew efforts to keep plant disease Xylella fastidiosa out of the UK by narrating a new animation that warns of the devastation it causes, including the death of millions of olive trees in Europe
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