New crisp venture

Dundee Courier
31 July 2009
Scotland's first brand of premium crisps has proven to be in demand after orders for them were made by from supermarket giant Tesco and the Queen.

Hopes of crisp profit from joint venture
Dundee Courier
25 June 2009
Two of Scotland's leading agri-businesses have created a joint venture company which will soon have a new snack product on retailers' shelves.

New governor for SCRI

Dundee Courier
25 June 2009
Economist and former MSP Andrew Wilson has joined the governing board of the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie, Dundee.

Sustainability research

Holyrood Magazine
21 June 2009
First for Scotland. . and the UK. It's farming, Jim... but not as we know it.

Royal Highland Show

Scottish Farmer
20 June 2009
Just inside the door SAC's commitment to developing rural communities and economies is made clear with a display about Care Farming.

Scottish Farmer
20 June 2009
Joining SAC at the Show will be two other research organisations that are well used to collaborating.

Tackling ramularia

Scottish Farmer
13 June 2009
One of Scotland's problem cereal diseases, ramularia, is to come under the spotlight in a new research project.

SCRI-led Kenyan project

The Farmer
9 June 2009
The Scottish Crop ' Research Institute, the country's international-ly-renowned centre for crop research, is leading an international project to help potato farmers in Kenya.

The Herald
27 May 2009
The Dundee-based Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) is leading an international project to help potato farmers in Kenya.

SCRI help for Kenyan farmers
Dundee Courier
25 May 2009
SCRI, Scotland’s world-renowned centre for crop research at Invergowrie, is leading an international project to help potato farmers in Kenya.

Boost for Kenyan potato farmers as charity chips in with £186,000
Scotland on Sunday
24 May 2009
Scottish scientists have been given a £186,000 grant to help boost potato crops and incomes in Third World countries.

Barleybread

STV News Tayside
29 May 2009
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute have come up with a new recipe for bread.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
27 May 2009
Boffins bidding to make bread healthier.

Tay FM News
27 May 2009
Researchers from SCRI are making a heathier type of bread.

Enprint

Aberdeen Press and Journal
14 May 2009
A new firm is to use DNA fingerprinting technology to assess water quality, it was announced yesterday.

Dundee Courier
14 May 2009
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) in Invergowrie have pioneered a way of testing water quality - using the DNA fingerprinting technology with which police forces track down criminals.

STV News Tayside
13 May 2009
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the way Scotland's water can be tested.

Blackcurrant hope for Alzheimer’s

Why blackcurrants can halt Alzheimer's
Daily Express
4 May 2009
Blackcurrants may hold the key to help slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease, scientists claimed yesterday.

April weather

Dundee Courier
2 May 2009
Dundee experienced mild temperatures in April, with even the lowest air temperature reaching its highest level in almost 50 years.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
13 April 2009
Yesterday may have felt like a scorcher in Dundee with crowds of people outside enjoying the Easter Sunday sunshine but local experts have said temperatures were nothing out of the ordinary.

£3.5m to tackle late blight

SCRI joins forces with Dundee and Warwick universities to seek solution to late blight in potatoes
Horticulture Week
21 April 2009
The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) has teamed up with the universities of Dundee and Warwick to tackle late blight in potato with a £3.5m research project.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
17 April 2009
Dundee University researchers are to lead a £3.5 million investigation into a crop disease that was responsible for the Irish potato famine and which still wreaks havoc around the world.

Tay FM News
17 April 2009
Researchers at Dundee Uni leading a £3,5m project to wipe out a deadly potato disease. The type of blight which was responsible for the Irish potato famine costs farmers £3bn per year worldwide. Project Leader, Professor Paul Birch, at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, comments.

Wave 102 News
17 April 2009
Researchers from Universities of Dundee and Warwick are joining forces with the Scottish Crop Research Institute to tackle blight. Project Leader Professor Paul Birch comments.

STV News Tayside
17 April 2009
Scientists at Dundee University are being given £3.5m to battle potato blight. Professor Paul Birch, Dundee University, comments.

The Scotsman
18 April 2009
Almost two centuries ago it was the plant pathogen which led to the deaths of more than a million men, women and children in the Irish potato famine.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
18 April 2009
Scientists in Tayside are to share in a £3.5million grant to help in the quest to cure potato blight.

Dundee Courier
18 April 2009
Dundee University researchers are to lead a £3.5 million pound investigation into a notorious crop disease which was responsible for the Irish potato famine and is still wreaking havoc around the world.

Dundee scientists tackle potato blight
www.stv.tv
17 April 2009
Dundee University researchers based at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, along with colleagues at the University of Warwick, are being given £3.5 million to battle potato blight.

Record sunshine for March

Dundee Courier
2 April 2009
March had record sunshine. If you thought the sun was shining more than usual last month, you were right.

Wave 102 News
2 April 2009
Weather experts at the Scottish Crop Research Institute say this year was the sunniest March since records began. Almost 170 hours of sunshine was experienced, over 50% higher than the average for the month. It was also the driest March in six years.

Soft fruit award

The Farmer
1 May 2009
Tribute has been paid by Scotland's Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham to a Scottish Crop Research institute scientist who has received a prestigious award for her groundbreaking work on raspberry breeding.

RHS honours SCRI scientist
Horticulture Week
17 April 2009
Dr Julie Graham, a senior research scientist at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), was singled out by Scotland's environment minister Roseanna Cunningham.

Scottish Farmer
4 April 2009
Dr Julie Graham, a senior research scientist at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, has been honoured by the Royal Horticultural Society for her breakthrough work on raspberry genetics.

Dundee Courier
2 April 2009
Scotland’s Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham has paid tribute to a Scottish Crop Research Institute scientist who has received a prestigious award for her groundbreaking work on raspberry breeding.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
1 April 2009
A scientist based at a Tayside research centre last night received a prestigious award for her groundbreaking work on soft fruit.

The Scotsman
31 March 2009
A Scottish scientist has won an accolade from the Royal Horticultural Society for her work on breeding disease resistant raspberries.

Outreach work

Dundee Evening Telegraph
9 April 2009
Pupils from Dundee's St Andrew's Primary visited the Scottish Crop Research Institute in lnvergowrie to launch a potato planting project.

Landslip research

Scientists use 1,200 tonnes of rubble to tackle landslips
Aberdeen Press and Journal
9 April 2009
Scientists in Dundee are hoping plant roots can be harnessed to tackle the life threatening dangers posed by landslips.

Dundee Courier
9 April 2009
The Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie is using plants to try to tackle the life-threatening dangers posed by landslips.

Tay FM News
8 April 2009
Scottish Crop Research Institute to tackle life threatening dangers posed by landslips. The facility has built an embankment on a landfill site to test soil an compost treatments with plant roots being used as reinforcement rods.

BBC1 Scotland - Reporting Scotland
7 April 2009
Scientists in Dundee come up with idea to stabilise embankments against threat of landslips. Dr Paul Hallett, SCRI, comments.

BBC Radio Scotland – Newsdrive
7 April 2009
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Centre are testing ways to stop landslides in Scotland. Dr Wheatley talks about the project which finds ways of using soils to stop landslide. Councillor Jimmy Black, Dundee Environmental Services, comments.

BBC1 Scotland - Reporting Scotland
7 April 2009
Crop scientists come up with idea to stabilise roads and embankments from landslips. Experimental slope is being set up in Dundee to get right mix of soils to hold the moisture. Dr Ron Wheatley, SCRI, comments.

BBC Radio Scotland - Radio Scotland News
7 April 2009
The Scottish Crop Research Institute is harnessing nature in a bid to stabilise embankments that threaten roads and railway lines. An artifical slope has been created to test what is the best compost to hold the moisture.

Wheat research

Pinpointing wheat varieties for bioethanol 
FarmersWeekly
8 April 2009
Researchers from ADAS, the Scottish Whisky Research Institute and SCRI have been examining how the breeding and agronomy of wheat might be directed more specifically for this purpose in a number of HGCA projects.

Plant stress study

Metro
3 April 2009
A scientist has been awarded £1million - to study the stresses plants come under.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
2 April 2009
More than £1million has been granted to Dundee University for research into how plants and crops respond to climate change.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
1 April 2009
Research at the University of Dundee (based at SCRI) into how plants respond to changes in environmental conditions and stress has been boosted by research grants totalling over £1million.

Blight population research

Farmers Guardian
27 March 2009
The A2 blight strain, dubbed Blue 13, has affirmed its dominance of Britain's blight population, according to results from Potato Council-funded research.

Growers advised to keep tight control on blight
Global Potato News
27 March 2009
“The onward march of the Blue 13 A2 blight strain is really quite clear,” reported SCRI’s Dr Dave Cooke, who is leading research into populations.

Raspberry beetle trap

Aberdeen Press and Journal
10 April 2009
A new trap to deal with one of the main pests for raspberry plants has been launched commercially.

Innovative raspberry beetle trap available this season
www.freshplaza.com
25 March 2009
Developed at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), as part of a UK government HortLink project in partnership with East Malling, the Natural Resource Institute and ADAS.

Soil compaction research

SCRI trials suggests barley drought resistance may vary
Farmers Weekly
24 March 2009
Hidden soil compaction could be costing cereal growers more than they realise, SCRI trials results soon to be reported in Field Crops Research suggest.

Ronald Forbes, Artist-in-Residence

Dundee Courier
11 March 2009
During the two-and-a-half year period he has spent as Leverhulme Artist-in Residence at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Ronald Forbes has become very enthusiastic about science.

Gloomy February weather

Dundee Courier
3 March 2009
Last month was the gloomiest February in over a decade in the Dundee area.

SSCR soft fruit meeting

Aberdeen Press and Journal
28 February 2009
Soft fruit growers have been warned not to trust supposed lists of banned agrochemicals that have been drawn up in the wake of the European Parliament agreeing to limit certain active substances.

Dundee Courier
28 February 2009
Fruit growers urged not to panic over chemicals. Speaking of the recent EU pesticides legislation Richard Meredith of Bayer Crop Sciences warned, "Nowhere in that legislation is there a banned list of substances”.

MEPs visit SCRI

Aberdeen Press and Journal
28 February 2009
The UK Government threw down the gauntlet to other states last night to speak up if it is to have any hope of overturning controversial plans to impose electronic identification and individual movement recording on the EU sheep flock.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
27 February 2009
A group of MEPs and senior EU officials discovered more about the importance of Scottish Crop Research Institute research to European agriculture on a visit to Invergowrie.

Dundee Courier
27 February 2009
MEPs see hill farm problems. The MEPs also visited SCRI in Invergowrie.

Women in STEM events

Dundee Courier
9 March 2009
Members of the Women's Land Army were at the Sensation science centre yesterday to celebrate pioneering women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

Dundee Courier
7 March 2009
Sensation Science Centre is working together with SCRI and the Universities of Dundee, Abertay and St Andrews in organising a programme of events showcasing and celebrating women's achievements in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

The Scotsman
25 February 2009
The achievements of female scientists and engineers are being celebrated over the coming month with a series of events called Women in Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) in Tayside and Fife.

Dundee Courier
23 February 2009
Efforts in sciences celebrated. A month-long celebration of female scientists and engineers in Tayside and Fife was launched yesterday.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
23 February 2009
A month-long celebration of female scientists and engineers in Tayside and Fife was launched yesterday at Dundee University.

SSCR cereals conference

Scottish Farmer
21 February 2009
Last year’s harvest will go into the history books as one of the most difficult harvests and drilling campaigns in the last 50 years - making even the harvest of 1985 look easy, the Scottish Crops Conference, in Perth, heard this week.

Vales Sovereign is eco-friendly potato

Oban Times
26 February 2009
Scientists at Dundee claim to have developed an 'environmentally sound' potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties.

Scotland on Sunday
22 February 2009
An environmentally sound potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created.

Eco-friendly potatoes created
www.fruchtportal.de
20 February 2009
Scientists in Dundee have created a new eco-friendly potato that needs less water and fertilisers than other types of potato.

Eco-friendly potatoes created in Scotland
www.fructidor.com
18 February 2009
Scientists in Dundee claim to have developed an "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties.

Daily Mail
16 February 2009
New Scots potato is pick of the 'green'. Received wisdom dictates that 'green' potatoes are the ones you throw away.

Daily Express
16 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created in Scotland.

Metro
16 February 2009
Scottish scientists have created a new superpotato to battle climate change.

Glasgow Herald
16 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato that needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created.

‘Green’ spud hits the shelves
The Scotsman
16 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created, it was revealed yesterday.

Dundee Courier
16 February 2009
An environmentally friendly potato bred by scientists in Invergowrie has been hailed as a "milestone" in the history of agriculture ahead of going on sale nationwide.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
16 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created by the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee.

Eastern Daily Press
16 February 2009
Green spud: An "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser has been created.

Yorkshire Post
16 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties has been created.

STV North Tonight
16 February 2009
Scientists in Dundee have conjured up a new potato with a special environmental appeal.

BBC Radio Scotland Newsdrive
16 February 2009
The eco potato have been unveiled.

Tay FM News
16 February 2009
A super spud created by local scientists is to go on sale across the country.

'Eco-friendly' potatoes created
BBC News Online
15 February 2009
Scientists in Dundee claim to have developed an "environmentally sound" potato which needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties.

Sunday Mail
15 February 2009
An "environmentally sound" potato has been created.

New potatoes are going greener
Sunday Times
15 February 2009
Scottish scientists have created an "environmentally sound" potato that needs less water and fertiliser than other varieties.

New bioenergy centre

Dundee Courier
28 January 2009
Dundee University is to play a key role in a £27 million Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council project to produce fuel from plants.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
28 January 2009
Dundee University is to benefit from a £27million UK-wide investment in bio-energy research.

£27m boost for biofuel research
BBC News Online
27 January 2009
Researchers at the University of Dundee and SCRI working to develop biofuels from plants like barley are to benefit from a £27m investment into bioscience.

STV North Tonight
27 January 2009
Scientists at Dundee University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute are looking at bio fuel which could replace petrol.

Tay FM News
27 January 2009
Bio energy research in Scotland has been given a cash boost.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
27 January 2009
Dundee University is set to play a key role in a £27 million project to produce fuel from plants.

EU pesticide ban

BBC Radio Scotland - Out of Doors
17 January 2009
Members of the European Parliament voted in favour of legislation which will ban the use of a number of pesticides, fungicides and insecticides in agriculture.

BBC Radio Selkirk - BBC Borders News
14 January 2009
Farmers face lower crop yields and consumers face high bills after EU passed controversial legislation on pesticides.

BBC Radio Selkirk - BBC Borders News
13 January 2009
European Parliament has passed controversial EU legislation on pesticides.

BBC Radio Inverness - BBC Highlands and Islands News
13 January 2009
It is claimed Scotland could face a drop in crops and more disease after EU ban certain types of pesticides.

Radio Borders - Radio Borders News
13 January 2009
MEPs have voted to support controversial pesticide proposals.

BBC Radio Scotland - Radio Scotland News
13 January 2009
EU parliament has voted to ban some pesticides.

BBC Radio Selkirk – BBC Borders News
13 January 2009
Scotland could see an increase in crop diseases and a decrease in food production.

Kingdom FM News
13 January 2009
Scotland could get an increase in crops diseases and a decrease in food production.

BBC1 Reporting Scotland
12 January 2009
Farmers warn about higher food prices.

BBC Radio Scotland – Good Morning Scotland
12 January 2009
Warnings of possible increase in food prices if EU goes ahead with banning pesticides.

BBC Radio Selkirk – BBC Borders News
12 January 2009
Farmers' unions heading to Strasbourg today to negotiate controversial EU pesticide proposals.

BBC1 Reporting Scotland
12 January 2009
Farmers are to lobby Euro MPs against the banning of some pesticides.

Purple potatoes

Purple spud will put you in the pink
Scotland on Sunday
4 January 2009
Scientists may have come up with the perfect chip, which not only tastes good, but could prolong your life. The only downside is that it is purple.