Plant & Food Research

Plant & Food Research (Māori: Rangahau Ahumāra Kai) was a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI) that is now part of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science. Its purpose was to enhance the value and productivity of New Zealand's horticultural, arable, seafood and food and beverage industries. The interests of the institute were based in horticulture, arable and seafood research, specifically in the areas of sustainable production, bioprotection, elite genetics and intelligent breeding, food and health science and biomaterials; these have moved into the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science.
The institute was formed on 1 December 2008 by merging existing CRIs HortResearch and Crop and Food Research.