News from the John Innes Centre

Steve Reader, Germplasm and Field Trials Manager at the John Innes Centre, has received a Long Service Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in recognition of his 40 year contribution to plant science and crop research. Steve started working at the Plant Breeding Institute, in Cambridge, on 23rd August 1971, as an Assistant Scientific Officer. [...]

A team of UK researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has publicly released the first sequence coverage of the wheat genome. The release is a step towards a fully annotated genome and makes a significant contribution to efforts to support global food security and to increase the competitiveness of UK [...]

A team of scientists at the John Innes Centre¹ in Norwich, UK led by Dr Graham Moore have a completely new understanding of the structure of a gene complex in wheat that controls the pairing of its chromosomes, knowledge of which has the potential to revolutionise wheat breeding. Dr Moore said “The transfer of useful [...]