CIMMYT visit celebrates strategic scientific partnership
Senior representatives from CIMMYT visited us on 6th January 2025 to discuss current and future collaboration opportunities.
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News New culture project launched to support women in wheat research
‘Empowering the UK wheat community to achieve gender parity’, a progressive culture improvement initiative led by the John Innes Centre (JIC), The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and Rothamsted Research, has secured funding from the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This 12-month project builds on the success of the Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat...
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News Prestigious award recognises wheat researcher’s outstanding contribution to farming
The role of the John Innes Centre in supporting crop breeders and farmers has been recognised with a prestigious award for one of its leading wheat researchers
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News MARPLE diagnostics – monitoring recent shifts in wheat stem rust in Nepal
Recent discovery of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain in Nepal has once again emphasised the need for vigilance to protect Nepal’s third most important food crop from any large-scale outbreaks of this devastating wheat disease
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News How bread dough gave rise to civilisation
A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world on its path to becoming the iconic crop that today sustains a global population of eight billion
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Blog The A.E. Watkins landrace collection of bread wheat: Who was AE Watkins?
Crop science is beginning to reap the benefits of Arthur Ernest Watkins’ work in the early 20th Century to assemble a diverse collection of local cultivars of wheat. As wheat scientist Robert Koebner wrote of this unassuming pioneer in the Genetics Society magazine, “Over 50 years since Watkins’ death and about 100 years since his...
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Press Release King’s Birthday Honours recognition for Professor Diane Saunders
Professor Diane Saunders has been recognised for her outstanding scientific achievements and dedication to women in STEM with the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024. Professor Graham Moore FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre said, “This prestigious honour reflects Diane’s remarkable contributions to...
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News International wheat community recognises outstanding researcher
An outstanding early-career wheat researcher has received international recognition for her achievements
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Press Release Discovery raises hopes of more temperature tolerant wheat
Gene-editing techniques have helped to identify a temperature tolerance factor that may protect wheat from the increasingly unpredictable challenges of climate change
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