Science news articles about 'john innes centre'

  • Sugar-coated antibiotics

    Researchers from the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia have recently elucidated the structure and function of an enzyme which is involved in decorating antibiotics with sugar ...
  • Sowing a future for peas

    ... how such compounds change in crops under field conditions," says Dr Claire Domoney of the John Innes Centre. The researchers used NMR spectroscopy to produce a profile of the levels of all the ...
  • Extreme nature helps scientists design nano materials

    ... assembly, nanoscale templating, nanoelectronic and biomedical applications." said Dr Dave Evans of the John Innes Centre. "Further studies towards the development of these VNPs for materials are ...
  • Purple tomatoes: The richness of antioxidants against tumors

    ... at understanding their mechanisms trying to find new ways to increase their consumption. Researchers from the John Innes Centre, coordinated by Cathie Martin, tried to step on it by putting on the ...
  • Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics

    Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them ...
  • Sicilian word enters British genetic language

    A scientific team from the John Innes Centre and University of St Andrews has identified a key gene that was transferred from a Sicilian plant into a close relative in Britain, showing how genetic ...
  • Computation and genomics data drive bacterial research into new golden age

    ... been a better time to be a microbiologist," said Buttner, who is a project leader at the John Innes Centre, an independent laboratory dedicated to plant and micro-organism research in Norwich, UK. " ...
  • Skin color studies on tadpoles lead to cancer advance

    ... 84093'. The work was led by the University of East Anglia, in partnership with the John Innes Centre (JIC) and Pfizer. "This is an exciting advance with implications in the fight against cancer," ...
  • Gene to reduce wheat yield losses

    ... author of the report, recently appointed to the John Innes Centre in Norwich. Resistance to stripe rust ... made up of many different genes each exerting a small influence, but recent work led by the John ...
  • Shatter-resistant brassicas

    ... model plant Arabidopsis, completely sealing the seeds inside," says Dr Lars Østergaard from the John Innes Centre. "We need to refine the process for use in agriculture to reduce seed loss but still ...
  • Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii

    ... expression." According to Ray Dixon, project lead in Molecular Biology at the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, "The international collaboration created by the Azotobacter genome project was ...
  • Obituary: Chris Lamb

    ... failure, was one of the leading plant scientists of his generation, as director of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, as regius professor of plant science at Edinburgh University, and as director of ...
  • Key seed size gene identified

    Scientists from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK and the University of Freiburg in Germany have uncovered a gene in plants that is responsible for controlling the size of seeds, which could lead ...
  • Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage

    ... theses stresses is of fundamental importance to agricultural science's response to climate change. This is one aim of the research carried out by the John Innes Centre, an institute of the BBSRC.

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