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At Plant & Food Research, we believe science can create a better future.

By finding smarter, greener options today, we’re helping secure the world we want to live in tomorrow.

With our partners, we use world-leading science to improve the way they grow, fish, harvest, prepare and share food. Every day, we have 1000 people working across Aotearoa New Zealand and the world to help deliver healthy foods from the world’s most sustainable systems.

New fruits, better grains, smarter use of chemicals, stronger biosecurity, higher yields, exciting foods, great nutrition, reduced waste.

We answer complex biological questions; we design innovative products and technologies; and we look over the horizon for new ways to grow a smart green future.

The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited is a New Zealand government-owned Crown Research Institute, subject to the Crown Entities Act 2004, the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992 and the Companies Act 1993.

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Plant and Food Research receives $42.7 million per year of Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) funding for 2 science platforms – Plant-based food and seafood production and Premium plant-based and seafood products.

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In July 2017, Plant and Food Research received $42.7 million Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) funding per year for 7 years to June 2024 for 2 science platforms - Plant-based food and seafood production, and Premium plant-based and seafood products.

In 2022/2023, they received a further $200,000 SSIF funding to support the provision of urgent science advice before, during, and after North Island Extreme Weather Events.

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Plant–based food and seafood production (receiving $20.9 million of Plant and Food Research’s annual SSIF funding) for deep understanding of the biology and physiology of key economic plant and seafood species, their pests and diseases and interactions with the environment e.g., precision seafood handling and harvesting regimes, fast fruit-fly detection.

Premium plant-based and seafood products (receiving $21.8 million of Plant and Food Research’s annual SSIF funding) for combining genetics, food and consumer science, and postharvest technologies and engineering to create value-added foods, beverages and other premium products e.g. new kiwifruit varieties, protecting consumers from seafood-borne illnesses.

Below is the public statement from our contract with Plant and Food Research.

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Plant & Food Research receives $42.7 million per year SSIF investment for research in 2 Science Platforms. A science platform is a combination of people, facilities, information and knowledge that provides a particular, ongoing science and innovation capability for New Zealand.

Plant-based food and seafood production ($20.9 million per annum)

Description: This platform supports capabilities that contribute to the sustainable production and protection of crops and seafood. By 2026, this platform will have produced a deeper understanding of the biology and physiology of key economic plant and seafood species, their production systems, their pests and diseases and interactions with the environment. 

For New Zealand, this will mean:

• Improved and novel growing systems
• Sustainable management of soil and water
• New integrated pest/pathogen management systems
• Climate Change mitigations
• New capability in Digital Horticulture
• New technologies for improved Market Access and Biosecurity

The objective for our portfolio of research investments is to maximise impact for New Zealand using a whole-of-value chain approach, across different sectors and over multiple timeframes. We aim to achieve an appropriate balance of near and longer-term targets to ensure that impact is delivered at regular intervals, and to develop new ideas and capabilities for the future (currently $8.7 million Sector-based; $7.2 million Pan-sector-based; $5 million Future Science).

Premium plant-based and seafood products ($21.8 million per annum)

Description: Premium Plant-based and Seafood products platform supports capabilities that create value-added food and beverages. By 2026, this platform will be combining genetics, food, consumer science and postharvest technologies and engineering to create value-added foods, beverages and other premium products. 

For New Zealand this will mean:

• World class breeding programmes utilising the latest technologies
• Future foods and biomaterials
• New postharvest technologies
• Consumer Science-informed food development
• Improved food safety and assurance
• Enhanced data analytics, including bioinformatics 

The objective for our portfolio of research investments is to maximise impact for New Zealand using a whole-of-value chain approach, across different sectors and over multiple timeframes. We aim to achieve an appropriate balance of near and longer-term targets to ensure that impact is delivered at regular intervals, and to develop new ideas and capabilities for the future (currently $14.8 million Sector-based; $2 million Pan-sector-based; $5 million Future Science).

For further information on Plant & Food Research’s SSIF investment contact Richard Newcomb, [email protected] .

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Plant-based food and seafood production ($20.9 million per year)

Supports capabilities that contribute to the sustainable production and protection of crops and seafood.

By 2024, this platform will have produced a deeper understanding of the biology and physiology of key economic plant and seafood species, their production systems, their pests and diseases and interactions with the environment. For New Zealand, this will mean:

• improved and novel growing systems
• sustainable management of soil and water
• new integrated pest/pathogen management systems
• climate Change mitigations
• new capability in Digital Horticulture
• new technologies for improved Market Access and Biosecurity.

Premium plant-based and seafood products ($21.8 million per year)

Supports capabilities that create value-added food and beverages. By 2024, this platform will be combining genetics, food, consumer science and postharvest technologies and engineering to create value-added foods, beverages and other premium products. For New Zealand this will mean:

• world class breeding programmes utilising the latest technologies
• future foods and biomaterials
• new postharvest technologies
• consumer Science-informed food development
• improved food safety and assurance
• enhanced data analytics, including bioinformatics.

Annual updates

Recipients of SSIF funding are required to report yearly on the progress of their work programme.  Below are the public updates from Plant and Food Research Institute’s annual reports.

Read the public update from the 2022/23 annual report

Platform 1: Plant-based food and seafood production

This Platform provides research and capabilities in the biology of key economic plant and seafood species, production systems, pests and diseases, and interactions with the environment to support innovation in the sustainable production and protection of crops and seafood.

In 2022 to 2023, $19.1 million was invested in basic-targeted research through the Tuia ki te Whenua Sustainability and Provenance Wins Ngā Pou Rangahau- Growing Futures Direction to deliver research ‘today’ to underpin ‘tomorrow’s’ future growing environments, and in the Digital Horticultural Systems Direction to explore how digital technologies might transform perennial horticulture towards a fully-autonomous future. These investments delivered research on stakeholder perspectives, sensing and imaging, data architecture and visualisation, apple system models, simulated orchard ecosystems, and regenerative food systems. As well, research to support the recovery from the effects of Cyclone Gabrielle and a new tool to evaluate the depth of our huatahi partnerships with Māori were funded through Platform 1.

In this Platform $4 million was invested in Better Border Biosecurity research to reduce the entry and establishment of new plant pests and diseases in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2022/2023 $12.9 million of research activity was classified as Discovery Science. SSIF investment supported ongoing and new collaborations with leading research organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world that enable researchers to benchmark science; access new thinking, capabilities, facilities and environments; and ensure Aotearoa New Zealand benefits from relevant science advances. New technologies were also produced to protect horticultural sectors from high impact pests and diseases through our investment in the Better Border Biosecurity collaboration. This year 277 papers were published, our SciMago score was 4.84, and the percentage of collaborative publications was 88%.

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Platform 2: Premium plant-based and seafood products

This Platform provides basic-targeted research and capabilities in genetics, food and consumer science, and postharvest technologies and engineering to support premium foods, beverages and other high-value products.

In 2022 to 2023, $23.57 million was invested in 3 Ngā Pou Rangahau - Growing Futures (NPR-GF) Directions: Hua ki te Ao Horticulture Goes Urban, Ngā Tai Hōhonu Open Ocean Aquaculture and Authentic Taonga Foods. These Directions deliver basic-targeted research ‘today’ that underpins longer-term opportunities ‘tomorrow’. NPR-GF investments delivered research on future urban consumers, traits for life indoors, overcoming pollination barriers, environmental plant hacking, Māori growing practices go vertical, performance measurement technologies for aquatic food production systems, fish species selection and assessment, aquafeeds for open ocean aquaculture, and cellular systems to support healthy fish.

Platform 2 also funded an initiative on taonga data that has contributed to a pan-CRI initiative in this area, a collaboration with AgResearch in food material biosciences, and a project on exploring taonga species with Māori partners. This year approximately $21.4 million was invested in Discovery Science. SSIF investment supported collaborations with leading research organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world. These collaborations enabled researchers to benchmark science; access new thinking, capabilities, facilities and environments; and ensure Aotearoa New Zealand benefits from advances in genetics, food and consumer science, technologies and engineering.

Research outputs described new fish rearing systems, novel technologies for measuring fish performance, aquafeeds, species selection frameworks, use of biofilms, a biobank of fish cell lines, survey tools for assessing consumer perceptions of food systems, plant traits for indoor growing systems, new propagation techniques for woody plants, and genetic control of fruit development. This year 277 peer-reviewed scientific papers were published. Our SciMago score for science excellence is 4.84. Our measure of research collaboration (percentage of peer-reviewed publications) was 88%.

Read the public update from the 2021/22 annual report

Platform 1 provides underpinning research and capabilities in the biology of key economic plant and seafood species, their production systems, pests and diseases, and interactions with the environment to support innovation in the sustainable production and protection of crops and seafood.

In 2021/22, $20.9 M was invested in basic targeted research through the Tuia ki te Whenua Sustainability and Provenance Wins Growing Futures Direction, which is delivering research ‘today’ to underpin ‘tomorrow’s’  future growing environments , and a new Digital Horticultural Systems Direction exploring how digital technologies might transform perennial horticulture towards a fully-autonomous future. New programmes were: `Data Architecture, Analytics and Visualisation’; `Modelling High Performance Apple Systems’; `Simulating Orchard Ecosystems’, and `Smart Sensing and Imaging Systems’. Investments across these two Directions delivered research on regenerative production ecosystems, future supply chains, new models of perennial horticulture and the deployment of digital twins. In this platform $3.9 M was invested in Biosecurity Aotearoa research to reduce the entry and establishment of new plant pests and diseases in New Zealand.

In 2021/22 $12.5 M of research activity was classified as Discovery Science. SSIF investment supported ongoing and new collaborations with leading research organisations in New Zealand and around the world. These collaborations enabled Plant & Food Research to benchmark science; access new thinking, capabilities, facilities and environments; and ensured New Zealand benefits from advances in crop protection and sustainable production science. Research outputs contributed to improved and novel growing systems, sustainable management of soil and water, new integrated pest/pathogen management systems, climate change mitigations, new capability in emerging digital technologies, and new technologies for improved market access and biosecurity. This year 352 peer-reviewed scientific papers were published. Our SciMago score for science excellence is 4.9. Our measure of research collaboration (percentage of scientific peer-reviewed publications) this year is 81%.

Platform 2 provides underpinning basic targeted research and capabilities in genetics, food and consumer science, and postharvest technologies and engineering to support the development of premium foods, beverages and other high-value products. In 2021/22, $21.8 M was invested in sector and pan-sector-aligned programmes and two Growing Futures Directions ‒ Hua ki te Ao Horticulture Goes Urban (HgU) and Ngā Tai Hōhonu Open Ocean Aquaculture (OOA) ‒ delivering basic-targeted research ‘today’ to underpin longer-term opportunities ‘tomorrow’. HgU programmes commenced on `Foods by Design’, `Environmental Plant Hacking’, and `Māori Growing Practices go Vertical’. OOA programmes commenced on `New Open Oceans Ecosystems’ and `Cellular Systems for Fish Health’. Growing Futures investments delivered research on future urban consumers, traits for life indoors, performance measurement technologies for aquatic food production systems, fish species selection and assessment, and aquafeeds for open ocean aquaculture.

This year ~$17.2 M was invested in Discovery Science. SSIF investment supported ongoing and new collaborations with leading research organisations in New Zealand and around the world. These collaborations enabled Plant & Food Research to benchmark science; access new thinking, capabilities, facilities and environments; and ensure New Zealand benefits from advances in genetics, food and consumer science, technologies and engineering. Research outputs enhanced breeding programmes, future foods and biomaterials and growing systems for producing them. This year 352 peer-reviewed scientific papers were published. Our SciMago score for science excellence is 4.9. Our measure of research collaboration (percentage of scientific peer-reviewed publications) this year is 81%.

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The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (PFR). PFR is an internationally recognized research Institute with a focus on high value foods and crops for New Zealand industries. The institute covers a wide range of crops and foods including breeding and genomics, production, and bioprotection. PFR has over 900 employees. Our parallel program is well aligned with CHIC: “New breeding technologies for New Zealand’s high value plant industries” $1,955,000.00 pa, Start date Oct 2016- End date July 2021, Total funding $9,775,000

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Many of New Zealand’s highest value crops suffer from a “handbrake feature”, a characteristic which limits their economic potential. Examples include very short storage after harvest, e.g. apricot, cherry and kiwiberry. A combination of long breeding cycles and limited genetic resources means improvements to these fruit crops are very limited. This programme will develop rapid next generation breeding tools for NZ’s tree crops, for high-value novel cultivars, seven times faster than currently possible. Novel traits, such as long storage and shelf-life, will be delivered through pinpoint alterations in the plant’s genome, without introducing foreign DNA. We will demonstrate the advantages of new technologies in an exemplar crop, kiwiberry.

Co-innovation with Māori growers in the horticultural and forestry sectors will enable us to align Māori development with state-of-the-art molecular genetics and to identify new ways of improving perennial crop breeding and plant-based industries in a way that is relevant to and appropriate for New Zealand society.

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Produce Report recently traveled to New Zealand to take a firsthand look at the country’s kiwifruit industry. Kiwifruit are New Zealand’s top horticultural export, with a value of USD 1.45 billion in 2018. We accepted an invitation to visit Plant & Food Research’s breeding and R&D center in Te Puke to see the kiwifruit breeding program up close.

There, we saw several kiwifruit cultivars from the breeding program—just a small sample from Plant & Food Research’s germplasm, which contains genetics from around 30 Actinidia species. These trial fruit came in all sizes and colors: for example, a fully red-fleshed cultivar, a red-hearted cultivar with green flesh surrounding it, a white-skinned green cultivar with red spots in the flesh, and a “spicy” flavored green cultivar. While most experimental cultivars don’t make it past the trial cultivation phase and never see commercial production, the red-hearted fruit we sampled in Te Puke could turn out to be the rare exception, as it is already undergoing trial sales by Zespri.

Juanita Dunn of Plant & Food Research told Produce Report that Zespri has four criteria that must be met to a high standard in order to even consider commercializing a new variety: flavor, color, PSA resistance and storability.

We also had an opportunity to try three varieties of kiwi berries that Plant & Food research is growing in its research orchard. These bite-sized fruits were excellent, with green flesh, high sweetness, and soft texture. Because kiwi berries are different species than green or yellow and red-hearted kiwifruit, they are not presently allowed to be imported into China. We are looking forward to seeing this fruit on the market and available in China in the future.

The case of Zespri SunGold kiwifruit is illustrative of the key role Plant & Food Research has played in the New Zealand kiwifruit industry. This PSA-resistant gold variety, developed as part of Plant & Food Research’s breeding program with Zespri, and patented under the variety name “Zesy002”, played a pivotal role in saving the industry from ruin after PSA arrived to New Zealand in 2010, leading to large-scale infection.

Fast forward to 2019 and global sales of SunGold are set to outpace Zespri Green kiwifruit . “Last season we supplied 76 million trays of Green and 65 million trays of SunGold,” said Zespri Chief Grower and Alliances Officer David Courtney. “Our latest estimates indicate we are on track to supply more than 75 million trays of SunGold this season, while Green is expected to be below 75 million trays.”

Another important development for the industry: local media in New Zealand recently reported that Zespri would trial 30,000 trays of the aforementioned Plant & Food Research-bred red-hearted kiwifruit in select domestic retail channels during March and April of this year. Like gold varieties, the red-hearted fruit is sweeter than typical green kiwifruit: this should go over well in Asian markets where consumers general like sweeter fruit. The red-hearted variety also has the advantage of being ready to harvest during February, which could help the New Zealand kiwifruit season kick off earlier, as other varieties are not typically available until March. Plant & Food Research as already planted this red-hearted variety all around New Zealand’s kiwifruit producing areas, except on the South Island and in Whanganui. It is the second generation of PSA resistant red-hearted kiwifruit that Plant & Food has developed.

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