John Innes Centre (JIC)
Innovation and technology
MARPLE team recognized for international impact
Research team behind revolutionary field test for wheat disease wins prestigious BBSRC prize.
CIMMYT trains early career scientists on wheat rust diagnosis and management
More than 200 scientists have increased their capacity at these annual trainings since CIMMYT started organizing them ten years ago.
Innovation and technology
Suitcase-sized lab speeds up wheat rust diagnosis
MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) is a portable testing lab which could help speed-up the identification of devastating wheat rust diseases in Africa.
Food security
Deadly strain of wheat stem rust disease surfaces in Europe
Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.