Hope from an unexpected source in the global race to stop wheat blast
An important breakthrough in efforts to halt the advance of wheat blast, an emerging threat to international food security, has come from a surprising source
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News How transcription delivers epigenetic silencing
Two new studies which appear in Molecular Cell reveal core principles of how chromatin and transcription interconnect to regulate gene expression. The work was focused on FLC, a gene that determines developmental timing in plants. But the principle that emerges, of the balance between transcription termination and anti-termination regulating gene expression, is relevant to gene...
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News Embedding environmental sustainability into our research
The John Innes Centre has joined more than 25 leading research organisations in signing an environmental sustainability concordat. The Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice, hosted by Wellcome commits signatories and supporters to embedding environmental sustainability into all research and innovation practice. The aim of the concordat is to ensure research and...
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News Outstanding John Innes Centre scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
Two leading John Innes Centre scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
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News Barley plants fine-tune their root microbial communities through sugary secretions
Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, research from the John Innes Centre finds
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News European Funding will take cell-to-cell communication research to next level
Curiosity-driven research probing the mysteries of cell-to-cell communication has been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) funding
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News Biochemical Society Award for Researcher
Dr Sam Mugford has received a prestigious award for his outstanding service in supporting the research of the John Innes Centre
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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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News Soil and root health research expertise attracts Farming Futures funding
John Innes Centre researchers will work alongside farmers and agritech partners in a £1m research collaboration to boost crop productivity by unearthing the secrets of soil and root health
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