John Innes Centre scientists have led a project to unlock the genetic code of wheat, one of the world’s three most important crops

The use of new genomic techniques and increased sequencing power promise to help breeding crops, but for wheat the pipeline from the laboratory to the field is held up by wheat’s complex genome and the lack of the kind of detailed genome sequence available for simpler plants

Too much sun, too much heat and not enough water makes us sick. The same goes for plants. Including ones that feed us and our livestock

Dr Cristobal Uauy of the John Innes Centre has been awarded the “Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award” 2011 for Biology for his work in the research area of wheat genetics

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure food security in the future

RevGenUK, the mutation detection service based at the John Innes Centre is poised to take advantage of the newest advances in genomic technology, supported by The Genome Analysis Centre Capacity and Capability Challenge Programme

A team of UK researchers has publicly released the first sequence coverage of the wheat genome

A few grass species provide the bulk of our food supply and new grass crops are being domesticated for sustainable energy and feedstock production

A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel