Seven scientific teams from the co-located John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory, and The Genome Analysis Centre have joined forces in the fight against rust fungi.

The newly formed Norwich Rust Group aims to develop durable resistance in crops. Exploiting advances in genomics, scientists will investigate how parasitic rust fungi invade and feed off plants. They will also use these new techniques to locate genes in some varieties of crops which are able to resist invasion.

Read more about this initiative on The Sainsbury Laboratory website.​