International Year of the Potato

Sunday Express
22 June 2008
With food prices spiralling at home and hunger riots in developing countries, Scottish Government advisers have come up with a home-grown solution - the humble spud.

BBC2 Scotland - Landward
30 May 2008
Report on potatoes as 2008 is the year of potato. Gaynor McKenzie, Scottish Crop Research Institute talks about the varieties of potatos found in Scotland. Gavin Ramsay, Scottish Crop Research Institute, explains how technology can help develop new potato crops.

Dundee Courier
31 March 2008
This is the year of the potato-a crop of huge importance to world food supplies and of vital importance to the agricultural economy of this region.

SCRI Open Days 2008

Dundee Courier
9 June 2008
Visitors to the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie were treated to tractor tours and computer animations at the weekend's open days.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
6 June 2008
People across Tayside are getting the chance to have fun with science as top scientists let their hair down at Invergowrie's crop research institute, SCRI.

Open Farm Sunday

Aberdeen Press and Journal
31 May 2008
Scientists from the Scottish Crop Research Institute are involved in the open day at Gilston Mains, farmed by Leaf Scotland chairman Edward Baxter.

Dundee Courier
30 May 2008
Scientists from the Scottish Crop Research Institute are joining forces with Fife farmer Edward Baxter this weekend for Open Farm Sunday.

SCRI Director gives Abertay lecture

The Scotsman
30 May 2008
The demands of Scotland's consumers for food are becoming increasingly complex and contradictory.

Dundee Courier
27 May 2008
As the world's climate heats up and global population continues to expand, will Scotland be able to feed itself in the future? That's the question Professor Peter Gregory, director of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, will be addressing in a public lecture at the University of Abertay tomorrow evening.

Flatworm threat to moles

The Scotsman
24 May 2008
Scotland's moles are under threat from an underground alien invader from the other side of the world which is quietly wreaking havoc in the countryside, a leading scientist has warned.

Peter Berry is new chairman of SCRI governing board

Dundee Courier
18 April 2008
There is to be a new chairman of the governing board at the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowne, writes Ewan Pate.

SCRI buys Balruddery Farm

STV - North Tonight
26 March 2008
Expansion plans are underway for the SCRI. This comes after the purchase of hundreds of acres of farmland. It is the first time the institute has owned land.

Dundee Courier
26 March 2008
The Scottish Crop Research Institute has confirmed a major land purchase which could result in the creation of an arable centre for Scotland.

Tackling climate change

Scottish Farmer
22 March 2008
Research on climate change was outlined at a groundbreaking meeting this week between leading scientists and Scottish Ministers.

The Scotsman
20 March 2008
Six ways Scottish experts are leading efforts to combat the effects of climate change.

Dundee Courier
20 March 2008
The great and the good of Scotland's fight against climate change met in Edinburgh yesterday with the express view of showing how well the six major research institutes are collaborating.

More effective government statement

Dundee Courier
4 February 2008
Concerned by plans to merge institutes, a farmer’s view.

Glasgow Herald
2 February 2008
First Minister Alex Salmond's announcement this week that "Our rural and environmental agencies have agreed to work together to develop a single rural service", has been well received by the farming industry.

Radio Scotland Grassroots
2 February 2008
First Minister Alex Salmond just announced plans to reduce the number of quangos in Scotland. Ken Rundell BBC Consumer Affairs correspondent, says there are plans to scrap the Scottish Crop Research Institute which is actually not a quango.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1 February 2008
First Minister Alex Salmond has defended the planned merger of two important research establishments in Tayside and Grampian.

Dundee Courier
1 February 2008
The Scottish Government yesterday moved to clear up confusion surrounding the status of Invergowrie's Scottish Crop Research Institute and the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen.

Glasgow Herald
31 January 2008
For 13 years, quangos have been repeatedly threatened with being thrown on a bonfire.

The Scotsman
31 January 2008
Alex Salmond's long-awaited "bonfire of the quangos" was unveiled yesterday and immediately condemned as a "damp squib" that would make no real difference to the size or the cost of the public sector in Scotland.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
31 January 2008
Serious doubts were cast on Alex Salmond's plans to slash the number of national public organisations last night.

Dundee Courier
31 January 2008
First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday announced the biggest shake-up of the public sector since devolution - scrapping or merging 52 bodies.

Dundee Courier
31 January 2008
Getting rid of, or merging, 52 public bodies may look more dramatic than it really is, but that's not to say reorganisation will be in vain.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
31 January 2008
Plans for the lnvergowrie-based Scottish Crop Research Institute to merge with the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen are "not set in stone", it emerged today.

Radio Tay FM
31 January 2008
There has been a mixed reaction to the Scottish government's move to cull quangos. Under the moves the Scottish Crop Research body could merge with the Macaulay institute. Peter Gregor SCRI comments.

Northsound 2
31 January 2008
Scottish Government announces plan to save millions per year by re-arranging some public bodies. The Macaulay Institute and Rowett Research Institute will be affected.

Business awards challenge

Dundee Courier
24 January 2008
Mylnefield Research Services director Nigel Kerby is vying for the Director of the Year Award run by the Institute of Directors Scotland.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
23 January 2008
Mylnefield Research Services director Nigel Kerby is in the running to be named Scotland’s Director of the Year.

Environment Minister visits SCRI

Dundee Courier
9 January 2008
SCRI money “well spent". Scotland's environment minister Mike Russell yesterday paid his first visit to the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie and seemed pleased with what he saw.

Global warming

The Scotsman
9 January 2008
Big changes on the menu as Scots adapt to global warming. The country’s food and drinks industries will have to adapt to meet future climate challenges, writes SCRI Director Professor Peter Gregory.

Antarctic research

Aberdeen Press and Journal
9 January 2008
Leading scientists from Perthshire were yesterday preparing to journey to the South Pole to study the effects of environmental change.

Perthshire Advertiser
8 January 2008
Leading scientists from Perthshire are set to journey to the South Pole to study the effects of environmental change on one of the world’s most sensitive habitats.

Daily Express
5 January 2008
Scientists from the City of Discovery are to follow in the footsteps of Scott of the Antarctic to find out more about climate change.

Dundee Courier
5 January 2008
Two Dundee plant and environmental scientists are heading to Antarctica to study the ecology of ice-free parts of the most extreme environments.

BBC Reporting Scotland
1 January 2008
Dundee's association with Antarctica is to continue as two SCRI scientists head there as part of a research trip to look at global warming.

Radio Scotland Good Morning Scotland
28 December 2007
Two Dundee-based scientists are travelling to the Antarctic to carry out research into global warming. They are carrying out a joint-study between Scottish Crop Research Institute and Stirling University.