New screen for safer food crops
John Innes Centre scientists are working on a way to screen crop plants for toxic accumulation
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News Discovery of the nutrient ‘mining machine’ in plants
Scientists from the John Innes Centre and the University of Oxford have discovered which genes control the specialised nutrient mining machine that develops on the surface of plant roots
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News Key seed size gene identified
Scientists have uncovered a gene in plants that is responsible for controlling the size of seeds, which could lead to ways of improving crops to help ensure food security in the future
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News International cooperation to produce novel animal vaccines from plants
A new project is being launched that will develop a rapid plant-based system to produce and assess the capacity of different proteins to act as vaccines against important diseases of livestock such as avian influenza and blue tongue
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News How roots find a route
Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have discovered how roots find their way past obstacles to grow through soil
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News Bacteria shed light on an important group of human proteins
A collaboration between researchers in Switzerland, the UK and France has led to the solution of the first crystal structure of a member of the Rhesus protein family and thereby shed new light on a group of proteins of great importance in human transfusion medicine
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News Why are there no Unicorns?
The riddle of the Unicorn remains but at least scientists now have a more rigorous mathematical and experimental framework in which to consider such issues
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News Flowering switch could help feed the world
The operation of a vital switch for controlling crop productivity has been identified following a 70 year search
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News Plants point the way to coping with climate change
Roses flowering at Christmas and snow-free ski resorts this winter suggest that climate change is already with us and our farmers and growers will need ways of adapting
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