Excellence in plant and microbial science
Josh Waites in the new co-Chair of our PhD community; the PhD Voice. We asked Josh about his own PhD project and how a global pandemic has affected the PhD community more broadly
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Earlier 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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Dr Carol Ibe is a Postdoctoral Scientist in Dr Diane Saunders lab, working on yellow rust in wheat. We asked Carol, what is yellow rust, why is it a problem and what can we do to save our daily bread?
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Researchers have found a gene in wheat that acts to promote rust fungal infection. Disrupting the function of this gene provides resistance to two of the most economically damaging diseases of wheat worldwide - yellow and stem rust
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An ambitious proposal to create a resistance gene “atlas” as a resource for the international wheat community has been outlined in a new review
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John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust
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Plants can tell the time, but how might that knowledge help improve crop protection and food security?
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How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate? One solution is to develop resilient crop varieties. But how can we achieve this increased resilience in crops? New John Innes Centre Group Leader Dr Sanu Arora is working on just that, so we asked her what her group will be doing?
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Scientists have identified a resistance gene, Sr22, as one of the few characterised genes that protects against many stem rust races, one of the most devastating fungal diseases of wheat
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