Collaborations across scientific institutes and international boundaries will be crucial in finding “durable resistance” to diseases threatening our most important cereal crop. That was one of the key messages from Wheat Disease Resistance Day, hosted by three institutes on the Norwich Research Park.
Research funding to develop a new potato which could be better for the environment, healthier for consumers and cheaper to produce has been approved.
Prof Sophien Kamoun has been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. EMBO elects fewer than 100 members per year. The organisation’s membership now includes about 1,600 eminent scientists working across Europe.
The Sainsbury Laboratory, the John Innes Centre and The Genome Analysis Centre are hosting a free Wheat Diseases conference on 22nd May 2015, at the John Innes Conference Centre
Professor Jonathan Jones, Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, has been elected as a foreign associate to the US National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his outstanding career researching plant-pathogen interactions.
Professor Cyril Zipfel has received the Charles Albert Shull award. This prestigious award acknowledges the scientific impact in plant sciences of a leading researcher under the age of 45 years of age.
A blog post by Professor Jonathan Jones
A team of scientists from the John Innes Centre (JIC), the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) have successfully transferred a receptor that recognises bacteria from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana - a dicot, to wheat – a monocot.
A new study into the generalist parasite Albugo candida (A. candida), cause of white rust of brassicas, has revealed key insights into the evolution of plant diseases to aid agriculture and global food security.
