Plant & Food Research is a science research organisation with a site at 120 Mount Albert Road in Mount Albert, Auckland. Its website says it has merged with AgResearch, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Scion to form the Bioeconomy Science Institute, and it describes itself as a group within that institute. The organisation says it has about 1,000 staff across New Zealand and overseas.
Its research covers new plant cultivars, fish breeding, food and ingredient formulation, health and nutrition, genetics and genomics, food safety, soil, water and climate, biosecurity and crop protection, and seafood production. Other work covers conservation and ecology, digital horticultural systems and open ocean aquaculture. The site also lists a living lab, Te Whenua Tupu, a flume tank and ecotoxicology testing. The organisation works with partners on how food is grown, fished, harvested, prepared and shared. For a reader interested in how science shapes food production in New Zealand, the site lists current projects and research areas.