All John Innes Centre articles
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NewsCentre for Microbial Interactions at Norwich Research Park is launched
The Centre for Microbial Interactions at Norwich Research Park is launched to promote and support ground-breaking research by one of world’s largest communities of microbiologists, with more than 100 microbiology research groups on one site.
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News‘Ice bucket challenge’ reveals that bacteria can anticipate the seasons
Bacteria use their internal 24-hour clocks to anticipate the arrival of new seasons, according to research carried out with the assistance of an ‘ice bucket challenge’.
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NewsNew method for protection from plant pathogens could help support global food security.
By modifying a plant intracellular immune receptor (NLR), researchers have developed a potential new strategy for resistance to rice blast disease, one of the most important diseases threatening global food security. The collaborative team from the UK and Japan have recently published their research in PNAS. This could have implications ...
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NewsCold climate wheat varieties could provide answers to blast threat
New research unexpectedly reveals that wheat varieties with resistance to another pathogen, powdery mildew, also confer protection against wheat blast.
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NewsBacterial hijack mechanisms as advanced genetic tools
Researchers have uncovered the intricate molecular mechanism used by parasitic phytoplasma bacteria, known for inducing ‘zombie-like’ effects in plants.
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News‘Lab on a chip’ genetic test device can accurately identify viruses within 3 minutes
A virus diagnosis device that gives lab-quality results within just three minutes has been invented by engineers who describe it as the ‘world’s fastest Covid test’.
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NewsBacterial circadian clocks show astonishing complexity
An international collaboration has discovered bacterial circadian clocks are widely found in the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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NewsGene expression in apicoplast could be target for malaria treatment
Gene expression within the apicoplast, an organelle in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is regulated by melatonin in host blood, and intrinsic parasite cues, via a factor called ApSigma, a recent study reveals.
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NewsSugar cane pathogen delivers promising new antibiotic candidate
A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful bacteria has emerged as one of the strongest new antibiotic candidates in decades.
