How can we use computers to better understand plant development?
We chatted with new Group Leader Richard Smith about his computational path from computer graphics, to investigating how genes control cell growth
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Blog Growing world-class plants for world-class plant science
At the John Innes Centre we have 70 Controlled Environment Rooms and glasshouses, where over 7,000 plants are grown each year, all planted and looked after by our Horticultural Services team
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Press Release Rising from the ashes
For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by Ash dieback and facing the threat of more invasive pests, but new research brings better news for native ash trees
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Blog A – Z Microbial Science
Microbial science may look at the microscopic, but the breadth of microbial research being done here at the John Innes Centre is massive, so here’s an A-Z covering some of it
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Blog A – Z of Plant Science
With plant research stretching from the genetic to the gigantic, we thought it would be worth creating an A-Z of some of the key pieces of work being done here
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Blog A day in the life of the Entomology and Insectary Department
Where there are plants, there are insects. Our Entomology Department houses a large-range of insects and conducts insect-related research with an overarching aim to help tackle the issue of global food production
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News Discovery could pave the way for disease-resistant rice crops
Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be explored to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast disease, a major threat to rice production around the world
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Blog Being a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre; Dr Laila Moubayidin
As we recruit the next generation of Group Leaders here at the John Innes Centre, we sat down with one of our most recent, Dr Laila Moubayidin, to find out why she became a scientist and how she went from PhD to Postdoc and on to leading her own lab
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Press Release Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids are made
Research reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
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