Pea-powered innovation delivers vitamin B12 daily dose
Pea shoots which contain the recommended daily dose of vitamin B12 fortified in a single small portion could soon be a tasty and healthy addition to your salad
Read the storyPea shoots which contain the recommended daily dose of vitamin B12 fortified in a single small portion could soon be a tasty and healthy addition to your salad
Read the storyA £1m Innovate UK project that aims to have a significant impact on reducing the need for UK imports of soya has been announced today. The ‘Pea Protein’ project is a collaboration between Germinal, a grass and forage seed specialists, and seed breeders, using a discovery made by John Innes Centre scientists 30 years ago. The gene...
Read the storyProfessor Cathie Martin is to give two special lectures after being elected to be the Janaki Ammal Visiting Professor by the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2020, as an outstanding woman in science
Read the storyProfessor Cathie Martin has been awarded the prestigious Rank Prize for Nutrition for her globally significant research in making fruit and vegetables more nutritious
Read the storyRoots are not just explorers, or anchors, and they don’t just take up water and nutrients. Their ability to explore and communicate with the soil around them will play a large role in the future of agriculture, helping us grow crops that can make an efficient use of the soil while supporting soil health
Read the storyResearch into the important adaptive and agronomic trait of flowering time has uncovered new evidence on differences between commercial varieties of Brassica rapa and closely related model plants
Read the storyNew factors that control the way starch granules form in wheat have been discovered. The findings could lead long-term to the production of improved cereal crops containing high-quality, healthier starches
Read the storyRuth Franklin is in the middle of a year as a practicing student in the Professor Cathie Martin lab. We asked Ruth about her project and what it’s been like experiencing life in the lab
Read the storyEarlier this month we launched the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, a cross-Norwich Research Park collaboration focusing on food security and sustainability. We sat down with Dr Peter Emmrich and Dr Natasha Grist to ask them about the new institute and how they got involved
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