Pioneering work in wheat breeding programmes hailed in BBSRC awards
John Innes Centre scientist Dr Cristobal Uauy has received national recognition for his pioneering work in global wheat breeding programmes
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News Professor Graham Moore recognised for exceptional contribution to wheat research
Professor Graham Moore and the University of Bristol’s Professor Keith Edwards have been jointly awarded the 2018 Rank Prize in Nutrition (Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry) for their exceptional contribution to wheat research.
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News Jemima Brinton awarded Monogram Early Career Award
Jemima Brinton, a PhD student in her final year at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the PhD Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (MECEA) at the 2017 annual MonoGram meeting in Bristol
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Press Release New wheat genome sequence assembly is most accurate and complete to date
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute, The Sainsbury Laboratory and the European Bioinformatics Institute, report in the journal Genome Research the most accurate and complete DNA sequence analyses of the wheat genome to date
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Press Release Scientists uncover hidden wheat treasures
A team of scientists in the UK and USA have generated a new ground-breaking resource of ten million mutations in bread and pasta wheat varieties
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News New MutChromSeq technique makes valuable genes easier to find
Identifying the gene for an interesting trait that might help you breed better crops isn’t always easy – especially if you’re working with wheat or barley
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News Scientists solve 60 year old Septoria mystery
A new paper explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50%
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News Scientists create new training resource to break down barriers to wheat research
Scientists from Dr Cristobal Uauy’s laboratory have developed a new open access online wheat training hub to support researchers currently working on wheat or hoping to make the transition to work on this important crop
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News New gene-detecting technology brings new, resilient super wheat closer
Scientists at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory have pioneered a new gene-detecting technology which, if deployed correctly could lead to the creation of a new elite variety of wheat with durable resistance to disease
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