Detoxifying the plant with the poisonous past
Grass pea, the crop with the curse, is set for a major change in reputation thousands of years after it was first cultivated.
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Press Release Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
The John Innes Centre has joined a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms
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News Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal crops moves a step closer
A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team, bringing us one step closer to realising the goal of engineering a range of crops to fix their own nitrogen
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Press Release John Innes Centre wins funding for grass pea project in Sub-Saharan Africa
A ground-breaking John Innes Centre project to cultivate grass pea in drought-prone areas has been awarded £1.2m funding.
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Press Release Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus
The complete sequence of the huge wheat genome has been published, which will accelerate innovation in breeding resilient and disease resistant crops to feed a growing global population
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Blog Collaborat-iron
As a child growing up in a middle-class family in the rural Indian village of Kanpur I was fascinated by the universe.
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News Fighting back: new study reveals unprecedented details of plant-pathogen co-evolution
The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killer
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Blog Nanopore sequencing for plant disease diagnostics in Ethiopia
Following extensive training at the John Innes Centre, our visiting scientist Abel Debebe Mitiku will lead the deployment of the first real-time, mobile diagnostics platform for wheat yellow rust in Ethiopia this summer.
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News Pulses raised as new study reveals secrets of the plant that keeps people calm
Chemical secrets of a plant used throughout history for its calming effects have been revealed in new research
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