News from the John Innes Centre

  This winter has been so mild we wouldn’t be surprised if plants were blooming in February! But what happens in a normal season? Just how do plants control when and how they flower? Find out how research at the John Innes Centre on flowering in weeds contributes to food security. Talks included a look [...]

Plant scientists at the John Innes Centre have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids are often more vigorous than their parents. They found a type of genetic “noise” – caused by a surprising degree of variation in gene activity even for highly similar traits in closely related species. In [...]