News from the John Innes Centre

RevGenUK, the mutation detection service based at The John Innes Centre is poised to take advantage of the newest advances in genomic technology, supported by The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) Capacity and Capability Challenge Programme. TGAC and the John Innes Centre are Institutes of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and co-located on [...]

Research published today in the journal Nature reveals how scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich and Washington State University, USA have managed to trigger nodulation in legumes, a key element of the nitrogen fixing process, without the bacteria normally necessary. This is an important step towards transferring nodulation, and possibly nitrogen fixation, to non-legume crops [...]