Plant and microbial science resources
All our activities, blogs, press releases and news stories grouped by a range of topics, allowing you to see and read everything we have produced in areas that are of interest you
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Press Release Plants water saving system works like clockwork, it transpires
Researchers have discovered that the circadian clocks in plants play a critical role in the consumption of water, allowing plants to use this precious resource more efficiently
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Blog Plants vs insect pests; a never-ending battle?
PhD student Joshua Joyce is investigating the way plants respond to attack from insect pests and how we could support plants to better defend themselves against this threat
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News Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Professor Dave Evans
Professor Dave Evans has been recognised for his outstanding contribution as a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Blog What is Protein X-Ray Crystallography?
Professor Dave Lawson manages our Protein X-Ray Crystallography technology platform. We sat down with him to ask what protein crystallography is, why it’s useful and how he got into this field of research?
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Blog Resilient microbe named after our alumna Dr Renu Swarup
Earlier this year, a newly discovered single-cell microbe that can survive in extreme environments was named after Dr Renu Swarup, current Secretary in the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology and former John Innes Centre Postdoctoral Scientist
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20 AprEvent *POSTPONED* Our Plants Our Future Conference
A two-day scientific conference at the Royal Society, hosted by The British Society for Plant Pathology, to mark the International Year of Plant Health 2020
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Press Release How three genes rule plant symbioses
For billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and lakes. Then 450 million years ago the first plants colonised land, evolving in the process multiple types of beneficial relationships with microbes in the soil
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Press Release The enemy within: how a killer hijacked one of nature’s oldest relationships
Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature’s most enduring mutual relationships, shedding new light on why plants possess genes that appear to be detrimental to their well-being
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