The John Innes Centre, located on the Norwich Research Park (UK), is an international centre of excellence in plant and microbial science. It is a registered charity (No. 223852) and a company limited by guarantee (registered in England No. 511709). Its mission is to carry out fundamental and strategic research, to train scientists and to make its findings available to society.

The scientific research at the Centre makes use of a wide range of disciplines in the biological and chemical sciences, including cell biology, biochemistry, chemistry, genetics and molecular biology. The JIC also hosts the Norwich Bio-Incubator.

The JIC will be a source of new technologies for the future of IDna Genetics. IDna Genetics will benefit from proximity to many world class scientists working in the area of plant genetics.

Plant Bioscience Ltd is located on the Norwich Research Park (UK). PBL was established in 1994 by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the John Innes Centre. The current shareholders are The John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). As an independently managed commercial (for-profit) company, PBL protects and commercialises intellectual property (IP) from its two founder institutes and other plant research laboratories at academic institutions and universities worldwide. Currently PBL applies its business model in the domains of plants food and microbial science.

PBL is responsible for the initiative of founding IDna Genetics, and IDna Genetics will, in future license new technologies from the PBL portfolio for use in its service business. Plant Bioscience Ltd will provide a pipeline of proprietary new genetic analysis technologies, sourced from its worldwide network.