Intellectual Assets

Public Servant Scotland
1 December 2008
Intellectual property - it's an asset. SCRI is working with Nairns Oatcakes in a partnership created thanks to the Intellectual Assets Centre.

MRS backs China deal

Life Sciences Scotland News
3 December 2008
MRS backs UK-China deal on sustainable farming

North Lilies

The plant detective
The Scotsman Magazine
27 December 2008
Glasshouse and Field Services Manager, Peter Gill, is tracking down the exotic North lilies bred at SCRI in the 1960s and 70s.

SCRI blackcurrants

Dundee Courier
26 December 2008
Blackcurrants now on the world stage

Blackcurrants could help Alzheimer’s

Berries ‘may help Alzheimer’s’
The Press Association
13 November 2008
Scientists at SCRI are working on a project that is trying to identify bioactive compounds in blackcurrants thought to be capable of reducing the risk of progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Foods to prevent health problems
BBC News Online
13 November 2008
Scottish scientists are working on ways of using blackcurrant waste to help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), near Dundee, aims to develop food ingredients from protective compounds found in the fruit.

Blackcurrant snacks may help to treat Alzheimer’s
The Herald
13 November 2008
Scottish scientists are seeking to create super blackcurrants and spin-off snacks which could help prevent dementia.

Blackcurrants may help dementia
Daily Telegraph
13 November 2008
Compounds in blackcurrants could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, research shows.

Berry aid for brain
The Sun
13 November 2008
Blackcurrant may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, it was revealed yesterday.

A currant of hope over Alzheimer's
Metro
13 November 2008
Blackcurrants could be the latest weapon in the war against Alzheimer's disease, researchers claim.

Scottish scientific research has flavour of success
The Scotsman
13 November 2008
Bread that controls diabetes, tomato extract that reduces heart disease and products from blackcurrants that slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease are all being developed by Scots scientists to help fight the war on obesity and poor health.

Blackcurrants project could stave off dementia
Aberdeen Press and Journal
13 November 2008
Scientists in Scotland will lead research to identify natural substances in blackcurrants that may delay the progress of dementia, one of the scourges of an increasingly elderly population.

Alzheimer's research fruitful
Dundee Courier
13 November
Blackcurrant and bread could help sufferers of Alzheimer's and heart disease, scientists from the Scottish Research Institute (SCRI) at Invergowrie told ministers yesterday.

Berry that could stop Alzheimer's
Western Daily Press
13 November 2008
Blackcurrants could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to food researchers.

GMTV News (Scotland)
13 November 2008
Blackcurrants could slow down the Alzheimer's disease. Derek Stewart, Scottish Crop Research Institute comments.

STV North Tonight
13 November 2008
Scientists in Tayside have found that the blackcurrant could help with Alzheimers disease. Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute believe the fruit could block or slow the protein damage that causes the illness. Dr Gordon MacDougall, Scottish Crop Research Institute comments.

Innovation Showcase

Dundee Courier
12 November 2008
Two Fife men at the leading edge of technology in the fields of sport and industry will play major roles in an event in Dundee later this month.

The Scotsman
15 October 2008
Jim Mather, the Scottish energy minister, and Ken Keir, the managing director of Honda UK, will be among the speakers at an innovation showcase being held in Dundee on 18 November.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
13 October 2008
Dundee and Abertay universities, together with SCRI, Scotland's centre for crop research, will join forces next month to present a showcase for some of the cutting-edge research taking place in the city.

Dundee Courier
13 October 2008
Some of the cutting edge research being done in Dundee is to be shown off to business leaders from across Scotland at a special event.

Potato expert gives lecture

Dundee Courier
6 October 2008
The Tayside and Fife branch of the British Association has just announced its public lecture programme for the year. Dr Gavin Ramsay of SCRI will deliver a lecture ‘The Potato: Food for the People?’

Scientists share £15 million research funding

Daily Express
2 October 2008
Scots scientists are chipping away at the DNA secrets of potatoes.

The Herald
2 October 2008
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) at Invergowrie, Dundee, are set to share in more than £15m of new research funding after securing roles in four new major research projects.

Dundee Courier
2 October 2008
Scientists at SCRI, Scotland's leading crop research institute at Invergowrie, Dundee, are set to share in over £15 million of new research funding after securing roles in four new major research projects.

STV North Tonight
2 October 2008
Scientists at Scottish Crop Reserach Institute are taking part in Europe-wide project. £15m of new research funding will go towards a study of the potato. Comment from Dr Glenn Bryan, scientist. Barley will also be studied to better understand the plant's reproductive process. Comment from scientist Dr Luke Ramsay.

BBC Radio Scotland Newsdrive
2 October 2008
Scientists may be able to improve the potato. £15 million for research. Dr Glen Brian, Crop Research Institute interviewed. Fragments of DNA being identified in chromosone research.

BBC News online
2 October 2008
Scottish scientists are aiming to unlock the genetic secrets of the potato.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
4 October 2008
Scottish scientists are to help in a global effort that could produce new potato, barley and wheat varieties.

Sunday Mail
5 October 2008
Scots scientists will map the genes of the humble spud in a £l5million bid to improve the crop.

New Vales Sovereign potatoes

Freshinfo
18 December 2008
Greenvale scoops potato award

Berwick Advertiser
18 December 2008
Greenvale spud is 'King of the Till'

Freshinfo
20 September 2008
Vales Sovereign, which has taken 12 years to bring to market, was bred by the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) and has been undergoing market trials.

Daily Express
16 September 2008
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie have successfully created a new breed of spud. Known as the Vales Sovereign it is, apparently, the Rolls Royce of potatoes.

Press Release Newswire
15 September 2008
The New King of Great British Potatoes. Vales Sovereign was bred by the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), developed by Greenvale AP, the UK's largest supplier of fresh potatoes.

CEUG Water Workshop

Dundee Courier
9 September 2008
Around 80 delegates began arriving in Dundee yesterday ahead of the opening of today's Water Workshop, organised by the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
4 September 2008
A water workshop is flowing into Dundee this Sunday as part of a conference organised by The Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Improving International Potato Production conference

Dundee Courier
9 August 2008
The United Nations Year of the Potato conference in Dundee yesterday opened with a landmark call from SNP MP Pete Wishart for biotechnology, including genetic modification, to be brought into play to alleviate the threat to food security across the globe.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
9 August 2008
A prestigious global potato conference in Dundee was opened yesterday with a landmark call from SNP MP Pete Wishart for biotechnology, including genetically modified crops, to be used to secure food supplies globally.

Wave 102 FM
8 August 2008
The humble potato is at the centre of an international conference in Dundee today.

STV North Tonight
7 August 2008
Hundreds of potato farmers and scientists from around the world are gathered in Dundee to discuss the future of the industry.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
4 August 2008
A high-ranking Chinese delegation's visit to Dundee this week, to attend a conferences on potatoes, could lead to a major boost for the local economy.

The Sunday Post
3 August 2008
The aim of this major conference, to be hosted by the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie, near Dundee, is to improve international potato production.

Mail on Sunday
3 August 2008
The humble potato has been a staple of the nation's diet for centuries, featuring in such traditional dishes as stovies and mince and tatties.

Pesticide warning

Aberdeen Press and Journal
7 August 2008
After a slow start political pressure is beginning to build up against European proposals that would decimate the approved range of pesticides available to farmers.

Dundee Courier
7 August 2008
After a slow start, political pressure is beginning to build up against EU proposals that would decimate the approved range of pesticides available to farmers.

Potatoes in Practice

Scottish Farmer
23 August 2008
Potato event focuses on industry priorities.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
8 August 2008
Quango boss hits at potato measures.

Dundee Courier
8 August 2008
Potato chief voices concerns.

Healthy Living Award

Dundee Courier
10 September 2008
The Scottish Crop Research Institute -at Invergowrie, one of the leading potato research centres, has picked up a national Healthylivin healthy eating awar after banning chips from its staff canteen, which is run by catering provider Sodexo.

Scottish Licensed Trade News
7 August 2008
A leading research centre in Invergowrie is one of the latest food service operations to pick up the healthyliving award.

Former BPC chairman joins MRS board

Farmers Guardian
1 August 2008
David Walker has joined the board of Mylnefield Research Services.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
25 July 2008
Former British Potato Council chairman David Walker has been appointed to the board of Mylnefield Research Services, the commercial arm of the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Dundee Courier
25 July 2008
David Walker, who until March this year was chairman of the British Potato Council, has joined the board of Mylnefield Research Services Ltd.

Scottish raspberries to be grown in China

The Scotsman
19 July 2008
With everyone suddenly becoming aware of the need to increase food production in the World, the spotlight fell this week on those at the forefrontplant breeders and especially Scotland's role in bringing forward new crop varieties.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
19 July 2008
A Scottish agricultural research institute is taking raspberry production to China.

Dundee Courier
19 July 2008
Commercialising new plant varieties across the world can be difficult, especially in countries such as China where plant variety rights are not enshrined in law, writes Ewan Pate.

New Glen Fyne raspberry launched at Fruit for the Future

The Sun
30 August 2008
Glen Fyne raspberry released.

Fresh Produce Journal
1 August 2008
New raspberry canes released.

BBC Radio Scotland - Out of Doors
19 July 2008
Peter Gregory, chief executive of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, says that berry consumption has increased by 20 per cent per year over the past four years. Nigel Kerby, Managing Director of Mylnefield Research Services, comments on SCRI's impact on the UK economy. Changes in temperature and rainfall patterns could affect the industry, says Adrian Newton, a pathologist specialising in climate change. With governments committing to pesticides being phased out, crop research into more resistant varieties is essential, according to the Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Society for Crop Research. This week the disease-resistant Glen Fyne raspberry was launched.

Aberdeen Press and Journal
18 July 2008
Scottish scientists have high hopes for a new variety that puts the flavour back into raspberries.

Dundee Courier
18 July 2008
A new raspberry variety was unveiled yesterday at the annual SCRI fruit walk.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
16 July 2008
Health Minister Shona Robison today became one of the first to taste a new variety of raspberry, Glen Fyne, developed at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie.

Food security warning at Cereal Solutions

Aberdeen Press and Journal
16 July 2008
Planned restrictions that could decimate the armoury of chemicals used by farmers to protect crops Europe-wide are a huge threat to future food security, one of Scotland's leading arable specialists has said.

Dundee Courier
16 July 2008
The world is in line for another problem harvest and we will soon see prices rising higher, according to SAC chief crop consultant Dr Keith Dawson.

Barleybread could improve health

Aberdeen Press and Journal
16 July 2008
Barley flour could be used to make bread healthier - and help cut cholesterol levels in humans.