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- New roles for SCRI Director
- SCRI - A history
- International Workshop on Barley Leaf Blights
- Scotland looks to blueberry hills
- Striking science lights up photography
- Field plots at Potatoes in Practice 2011
- ‘Harvesting Opportunities’ for cereals
- Boost for Scottish healthy food
- SCRI welcomes Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures
- SSCR winter meetings 2011
- Protective properties of green tea uncovered
- Scottish research praised
- Snowy statistics at SCRI
- The SCRI Christmas Card 2010
- SCRI forges new links with China
- Bioscience researchers defeating potato blight
- Professor David Hopkins moving to Heriot-Watt University
- New Institute leaders meet Richard Lochhead
- Return of a Scottish Science Hero
- Dr John Bradshaw wins prestigious potato industry award
- EU PURE project to help reduce pesticides
- BBC Scotland’s Landward to feature SCRI
- John Swinney visits SCRI
- Potato event keeps on growing
- Scottish Environment Minister visits SCRI
- Focus on high health at potato event
- Registration closing for SOL2010
- Chief Executive named for Scotland’s new research institute
- £1.8 million funding boost for SCRI
- Technology on show at Scottish cereals event
- RHS role for SCRI director
- Profit harvest for Scottish-bred crops
- ‘SCRI deserves more recognition’ – Princess Royal
- Meet Heather ‘The Weather’ at SCRI
- Early Bird rates extended for SOL2010
- SCRI scientist honoured
- Rare native barley to be preserved
- Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience launch
- Scottish scientists in £4.9m oats study
- HRH The Princess Royal to visit SCRI
- Hunt begins for scientist to lead Scots ‘Super Institute’
- Chairman announced for New Institute
- SCRI support for farmers in Malawi
- SCRI joins European legumes project
- SCRI Director among top scientists advising Scottish Government
- Fruit, veg, art and design combine in new exhibition
- Secret sex life of aphids unlocked
- New raspberry breeding funding
- Scotland joins North Sea region coalition to boost berry industry
- Baked rhubarb could help fight cancer
- Funding to help train the crop scientists of the future
- SSCR 2010 winter meetings
- Cold snap breaks 50-year-old records
- SCRI welcomes UK move on food supply
- Crop Science and Research “Fundamental”
- SCRI Group Supports UK Plant Breeding
- Professor Gregory to chair the ACNFP
- No spray potato predicted
- Moredun to be affiliated to New Institute
- SCRI and Macaulay agree to form ‘super institute’
- Scottish scientists dig around for worms
- Potato Genome Sequence released by international group of scientists
- New milestone for knowledgescotland
- New role for Professor Peter Gregory
- Genome of Irish potato famine pathogen decoded
- Eucarpia comes to Dundee
- SCRI chief comments on UK food consultation
- Big Turnout for Potatoes in Practice
- Potato blight plight looks promising for food security
- SCRI helps M&S sustainability initiative
- PiP solutions to potato challenges
- Cereals in Practice 2009
- Andrew Wilson joins Governing Board of SCRI
- Fruitful future predicted for Scotland’s berry industry
- Book now for EUCARPIA
- SCRI to lead project to help Kenyan farmers
- “The climate is changing – so must we!”
- Water testing breakthrough for Scotland
- £3.5 million to tackle late blight
- SCRI scientists take uphill challenge
- SCRI scientists spread the word
- BioSS Head of Research elected RSE Fellow
- “You choose the news” Science and the media, finding the balance
- MEPs visit Scotland’s leading crop research institute
- Women in STEM event at SCRI
- Help at hand for fruit growers facing new EU pesticide regime
- Blondie wins prize for PhD student
- Art and science create ‘The Nature of Things’
- New £27 million bioenergy centre
- SCRI to host EUCARPIA meeting
- SSCR winter events
- SCRI bred potato wins award
- North lilies return to SCRI
- SCRI Farm Manager wins Director’s Award
- Swede little mystery
- MRS backs UK-China deal on sustainable farming
- SCRI scientists secure share of £15m
- New Programme 1 website
- Innovation Showcase Business Day
- SCRI PhD Opportunities
- Water Workshop at SCRI
- Conference presentations now available
- Potato industry honours Jim Godfrey, OBE
- SCRI Governor to Chair Potato Council
- Meet Glen Fyne - the new Scottish raspberry
- UN Year of the Potato conference
- SCRI Director warns of major changes in Scotland's food supply system
- SCRI scientist honoured
- New Chairman for SCRI Governing Board
- Polytunnel raspberries best for size and flavour
- Could tea combat diabetes?
- "Delivering More Effective Government" – SCRI statement
- Cross-Cutting Themes publications
- From Perthshire to Antarctica
- SCRI joins £1.7 million project to decode the genetic secrets of a potato killer
- Oats so good for you
- New discovery links potato scourge and malaria
- Is ‘Umami’ the secret of the perfect potato?
- Top SCRI scientist honoured by RSC
- Twelve hundred years of service!
- Former SCRI student wins PM’s prize in Australia
- SCRI Scientist Awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship
- Keeping science in focus
- SCRI’s potato mountain wins silver
- China opens the door to Scottish seed potatoes
- China’s Minister Counsellor for Science visits SCRI at Invergowrie
- Rare sighting causes a flutter
- New SCRI website launched
- Scottish Crop Research Generates £160 Million a Year
- SCRI Scientists to Study Methods for GMO "Safety Assessment"
- Potato Mountain to Move to Edinburgh
- River City's Shellsuit Bob Down on the Farm!
- Dundee Bears Get Fruity
- Scots Scientists' Climate Change Challenge
- Scottish Raspberries a Big Hit in Spain
- SCRI Announces New Governors
- Scots Scientists in £2.5 Million Quest to Make Healthy Food Even Healthier
- SCRI's Director Reacts to IPCC Report
- Funding Boost for SCRI
Professor Peter Gregory has been appointed Chief Executive of East Malling Research (EMR) and will simultaneously take on the role of Professor of Global Food Security at the University of Reading.
(Published: 05 Apr 2011)
A special history of SCRI was produced along with the 2010 Annual Report to mark the end of SCRI before it joined with Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute.
(Published: 31 Mar 2011)
Online booking is now open for the Fourth International Workshop on Barley Leaf Blights to be hosted in Dundee this June.
(Published: 31 Mar 2011)
Scottish berries are famed for being among the best in the world so researchers are hoping canny Scots consumers can help them grow the best blueberries around.
(Published: 28 Feb 2011)
A striking image that looks like a vision from a science fiction movie but is in fact a growing plant stem has won a Special Award in the 2011 Wellcome Image Awards for an SCRI scientist.
(Published: 28 Feb 2011)
Potential exhibitors at Potatoes in Practice 2011 are reminded that field plot bookings must be submitted by 3 March for this year's event. It will be held at Balruddery Farm on Thursday 11 August 2011.
(Published: 25 Feb 2011)
Farmers and industry representatives will hear how Scotland can play a bigger role in the future of food production at a one day cereals conference ‘Harvesting Opportunities’ next week.
(Published: 18 Feb 2011)
SCRI will help Scottish food and drink companies tap into the burgeoning health and nutrition sector as part of a new £4million project announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment Richard Lochhead.
(Published: 11 Feb 2011)
The Director and Chief Executive of SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research, has welcomed a UK government-commissioned study into food security.
(Published: 24 Jan 2011)
Winter meetings hosted by the SSCR Potato, Soft Fruit and Combinable and Energy Crops sub-committees will take place this February and March.
(Published: 10 Jan 2011)
Regularly drinking green tea could protect the brain against developing Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, according to latest research by scientists at Newcastle University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute.
(Published: 06 Jan 2011)
Scientist Heather Reid OBE, speaking at a knowledgescotland news briefing, has paid tribute to the benefits Scottish Government funded research brings to the economy.
(Published: 09 Dec 2010)
Weather statistics released by SCRI at Invergowrie show that 25cm of snow fell at the site during the recent blizzards which also witnessed the fairly rare occurrence of thundersnow in the Dundee area.
(Published: 09 Dec 2010)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our friends, supporters, suppliers and customers from the teams at SCRI, Mylnefield Research Services Ltd and BioSS.
(Published: 01 Dec 2010)
SCRI has made a cooperation agreement with Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ZAAS) in China.
(Published: 19 Nov 2010)
Researchers at SCRI have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to late blight – a devastating disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry £5-6 billion a year worldwide.
(Published: 18 Nov 2010)
SCRI’s Director and Chief Executive, Peter Gregory, has paid tribute to Professor David Hopkins who is to leave the Institute to take up the post of Head of the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.
(Published: 16 Nov 2010)
Professor Iain Gordon, the Chief Executive of The James Hutton Institute, has had a meeting with the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP.
(Published: 11 Nov 2010)
The new “super research institute” to be formed from SCRI in Invergowrie, and Aberdeen’s Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, is to be named in honour of the Scottish Enlightenment science pioneer, James Hutton.
(Published: 10 Nov 2010)
Dr John Bradshaw, honorary fellow of SCRI, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 British Potato Industry Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to potato research and knowledge transfer.
(Published: 29 Oct 2010)
The desire for less pesticide residues on crops and a reduction in the types of agro-chemicals available to farmers after recent EU legislation is being addressed by new research at SCRI.
(Published: 20 Oct 2010)
SCRI – Scotland’s world-renowned centre for crop research based at Invergowrie, Dundee - will be the star of the small screen this week when BBC Scotland’s Landward shows three programmes showcasing the institute’s work.
(Published: 06 Oct 2010)
The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney, has paid a visit to SCRI.
(Published: 31 Aug 2010)
Just over 700 people attended this year’s Potatoes in Practice held at SCRI’s Balruddery Farm near Dundee.
(Published: 16 Aug 2010)
The Scottish Environment Minister and MSP for Perth, Roseanna Cunningham, has paid a visit to SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research.
(Published: 10 Aug 2010)
Guarding against disease and the importance of diagnostics in ensuring high health potato crops will be two of the topics covered at the UK’s largest potato field event Potatoes in Practice on 12 August.
(Published: 05 Aug 2010)
More than 250 delegates have registered for the SOL2010 conference to be held in Dundee next month.
(Published: 04 Aug 2010)
A leading Scots scientist – currently working in Australia – has been named as the Chief Executive designate to lead Scotland’s new, crop, food and land use research organisation.
(Published: 28 Jul 2010)
Innovative research and development projects at SCRI that will lead to more sustainable crops and new more resistant varieties of soft fruit, potato and barley have been awarded over £1.8 million funding from the Technology Strategy Board.
(Published: 09 Jul 2010)
This year’s Cereals in Practice (CiP) event, hosted by SCRI, will be focusing in part on new advances in commercial barley breeding powered by technology originally used in human genome studies.
(Published: 06 Jul 2010)
The Director and Chief Executive of SCRI, Professor Peter Gregory, has been elected to the council of the Royal Horticultural Society.
(Published: 30 Jun 2010)
The commercial subsidiary of SCRI – Scotland’s world-beating crop research centre – has seen its turnover increase by 25% in the year to March this year.
(Published: 23 Jun 2010)
Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, has officially opened Scotland’s National Seed Store held at SCRI, the world-ranking crop research centre at Invergowrie in Perth and Kinross.
(Published: 07 Jun 2010)
The public will get to see behind the scenes at SCRI in Invergowrie this weekend when TV’s Heather ‘The Weather’ Reid OBE will be the special celebrity guest at Open Farm Sunday on 13 June.
(Published: 06 Jun 2010)
Early Bird registration rates for the SOL2010 conference have been extended until 14 June.
(Published: 31 May 2010)
A 36-year-old scientist at SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research and plant breeding, has been awarded the Peter Massalski Prize for meritorious research.
(Published: 26 May 2010)
Rare varieties of native Scottish barley grown in only a few remaining pockets of the Hebrides could be protected thanks to important genetic fingerprinting work carried out by SCRI.
(Published: 25 May 2010)
SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research, and The University of Dundee are supporting a joint research venture which will examine environmental change and how society can react to it.
(Published: 05 May 2010)
Crop scientists at SCRI in Invergowrie are to take part in a major study to develop new varieties of oats that will provide significant economic and environmental benefits for growers, millers, and the dairy, beef and poultry industries.
(Published: 19 Apr 2010)
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that HRH The Princess Royal is to visit SCRI in early June.
(Published: 16 Apr 2010)
The hunt has begun for a world-leading scientist to fill the role of Chief Executive Officer at the new scientific research institute to be formed from SCRI (Scottish Crop Research Institute) and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.
(Published: 26 Mar 2010)
The Chairmen of the Governing Boards of the Macaulay Land Use and the Scottish Crop Research Institutes have announced the appointment of Ray Perman as the Chair of the new scientific research institute.
(Published: 23 Mar 2010)
Farmers in Malawi can look forward to improved potato crops and benefit from the expertise of researchers from SCRI following an award of nearly £400,000 by the Scottish Government’s International Development Fund.
(Published: 19 Mar 2010)
Researchers from SCRI have joined with their counterparts in 12 other EU countries in a consortium seeking better ways to use legume crops. The Legume Futures programme will be launched in Edinburgh on 16 March 2010.
(Published: 15 Mar 2010)
SCRI's Director and Chief Executive, Professor Peter Gregory, is among 12 leading scientists who have been appointed to the specialist panel that advises the Scottish Government on science issues.
(Published: 10 Mar 2010)
An exhibition celebrating an unusual fusion of art and science goes on show at the University of Dundee this weekend.
(Published: 25 Feb 2010)
Scottish scientists are a key part of the team that is publishing the completed genome of the pea aphid...one of a family of small, plant-eating insects that do damage to food crops around the world estimated in billions of dollars worldwide.
(Published: 23 Feb 2010)
SCRI has warmly welcomed a major investment - almost £400,000 - in soft fruit research which has just been announced by the Scottish Government.
(Published: 19 Feb 2010)
Scottish scientists have joined a consortium including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany with the goal of securing the long term future of the soft fruit industry.
(Published: 17 Feb 2010)
Eating rhubarb baked in a crumble is not only tasty it may also be the best way to take advantage of its health benefits, and could lead to the development of new cancer treatments.
(Published: 12 Feb 2010)
SCRI and the University of Dundee have been awarded almost £350,000 to train the next generation of crop breeders, who will help to address worldwide food shortages and deal with the impact of climate change.
(Published: 03 Feb 2010)
The winter meetings of the Scottish Society for Crop Research Potato and Soft Fruit Sub-committees will be held at SCRI in February.
(Published: 15 Jan 2010)
Weather statistics released by SCRI have underlined the severity of the cold snap currently affecting the UK.
(Published: 07 Jan 2010)
The UK government’s plans for a new agricultural strategy to meet future food demands and the challenges of climate change have been welcomed by the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie.
(Published: 05 Jan 2010)
The crucial research contributing to our security of food supply has been highlighted at a conference in Edinburgh.
(Published: 16 Dec 2009)
The Managing Director of SCRI's commercial subsidiary Mylnefield Research Services (MRS Ltd) Dr Nigel Kerby, has underlined the group's commitment to training a new generation of plant breeders.
(Published: 01 Dec 2009)
SCRI Director and Chief Executive, Professor Peter Gregory, has been appointed Chair of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP).
(Published: 27 Nov 2009)
SCRI’s Director, Professor Peter Gregory, has predicted the development of a potato variety that would require little or no pesticide and herbicide spraying.
(Published: 17 Nov 2009)
The plan for SCRI and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute to form a new ‘super-institute’ has been further boosted by news that the Moredun Research Institute is likely to become an “affiliate” of the new organisation.
(Published: 09 Oct 2009)
SCRI and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute have agreed in principle to unite, strengthening Scotland's rural-environmental research capacity and further enhancing their international competitiveness.
(Published: 06 Oct 2009)
A project is about to get underway to count Scotland’s worms. The project may also help scientists understand how climate change is affecting our earthworm population. The unique study is being conducted on Scottish farms.
(Published: 25 Sep 2009)
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), an international team of scientists including researchers at SCRI and the University of Dundee has announced that it has released the first draft sequence of the potato genome.
(Published: 23 Sep 2009)
knowledgescotland reaches a new milestone next month when a two day conference will focus on key research areas.
(Published: 15 Sep 2009)
SCRI's Director and Chief Executive, Professor Peter Gregory, has been elected as President of the International Society of Root Research. The Society was founded in 1982.
(Published: 14 Sep 2009)
Scientists at SCRI have helped decode the genome of the notorious pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and still costs the world £3 billion a year.
(Published: 10 Sep 2009)
Scientists from all over the world completed a successful conference in Dundee which focused on one of the key issues of our time - food security. They were all specialists in biometrics, the science of measuring and analysing biological data.
(Published: 28 Aug 2009)
The Westminster government has suggested a "radical rethink" is required of how the UK produces and consumes its food.
(Published: 10 Aug 2009)
Potatoes in Practice, the UK's largest field trial event for the potato sector, has made a successful transition to its new home at Balruddery Farm in Angus. Balruddery is to be at the heart of SCRI's research into sustainable farming methods.
(Published: 07 Aug 2009)
Over 160 years since potato blight wreaked havoc in Ireland and other northern European countries scientists at SCRI finally have the blight-causing pathogen in their sights and are working to accelerate breeding of more durable, disease resistant
(Published: 07 Aug 2009)
High Street store Marks & Spencer has launched a new industry initiative to help farmers become more environmentally sustainable with the help of experts at SCRI.
(Published: 03 Aug 2009)
Potatoes in Practice, Britain’s biggest field-based event for the potato industry in 2009, takes place at Balruddery Farm, Invergowrie, Dundee on Thursday 13 August.
(Published: 31 Jul 2009)
The consortium behind Cereals in Practice has hailed this year’s event a big success.
(Published: 10 Jul 2009)
The former economist and MSP Andrew Wilson has joined the Governing Board of SCRI, Scotland’s world-renowned crop research institute based at Invergowrie, Dundee.
(Published: 25 Jun 2009)
Key figures from Scotland’s burgeoning soft fruit industry will gather on Thursday (16 July) for SCRI’s Fruit for the Future, the annual showcase of what is new in the sector.
(Published: 24 Jun 2009)
Book online for the Biometrics in Plant Breeding Section conference in Dundee this September. Early bird offer extended to 14 July.
(Published: 26 May 2009)
SCRI is leading an international project to help potato farmers in Kenya.
(Published: 25 May 2009)
One of the world’s leading scientists has warned that the issues of food security and climate change must be much more closely linked.
(Published: 21 May 2009)
New help is at hand for those working to promote the sustainability and quality of Scotland’s natural environment.
(Published: 19 May 2009)
Researchers from SCRI will join forces with colleagues at the universities of Dundee and Warwick in a multi-million pound project to investigate late blight – responsible for the Irish potato famine and still wreaking havoc around the world.
(Published: 20 Apr 2009)
Not many scientific experiments require twelve hundred tonnes of soil and rubble. But that is exactly what is being used by scientists at SCRI in Dundee as they try to tackle the life-threatening dangers posed by landslips; using plants.
(Published: 08 Apr 2009)
SCRI’s scientists are making the results of their research available to an even wider audience…particularly those charged with drawing up public policy.
(Published: 18 Mar 2009)
Professor Christopher Glasbey, Head of Research at Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS), part of the SCRI Group, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
(Published: 10 Mar 2009)
Science and scientific advances are everywhere in the media. But how easy is it to report on controversial subjects, such as scientific advances, in a balanced way? Do personal opinions influence the final report?
(Published: 09 Mar 2009)
A group of MEPs and senior EU officials discovered more about the importance of SCRI research to European agriculture on a visit to Invergowrie, Dundee.
(Published: 26 Feb 2009)
The universities of Dundee, Abertay and St Andrews, together with SCRI and Sensation, have organised a programme of events showcasing and celebrating Women’s Achievements in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
(Published: 20 Feb 2009)
The implications of the major changes on pesticides regulations planned by the EU will be spotlighted at a meeting involving growers and producers next week.
(Published: 18 Feb 2009)
An essay inspired by a Blondie record has won a top prize for a PhD student at SCRI, Scotland’s leading crop research institute.
(Published: 12 Feb 2009)
Scots artist Ronnie Forbes will unveil his latest body of work, ‘De Rerum Natura: The Nature of Things’, later this month following a two-year residency at SCRI, Scotland’s leading crop research centre.
(Published: 09 Feb 2009)
SCRI and the University of Dundee will play a key role in a new £27 million Sustainable Bioenergy Centre announced by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
(Published: 27 Jan 2009)
SCRI is delighted to announce that EUCARPIA, the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, will bring the fourteenth meeting of its Biometrics in Plant Breeding Section conference to Dundee this year.
(Published: 16 Jan 2009)
The Scottish Society for Crop Research will host three sub-committee events this winter focusing on soft fruit, cereals and potatoes.
(Published: 15 Jan 2009)
The Vales Sovereign potato bred at SCRI in collaboration with Greenvale AP has won Tesco’s 'Variety of the Year' in the Fresh Produce Category Awards 2008.
(Published: 08 Jan 2009)
A group of Scottish Ladies once thought lost forever are set to return to Dundee, where they started life some 40 years ago.
(Published: 29 Dec 2008)
SCRI Director and Chief Executive, Professor Peter Gregory, has named Farm Manager Euan Caldwell as the winner of the 2008 Director’s Award for an outstanding contribution to the life and reputation of the institute.
(Published: 16 Dec 2008)
The soft fruit and potato varieties bred at SCRI are widely known to farmers and consumers alike but SCRI boasts another highly successful breeding programme that is not so well-known – brassicas.
(Published: 02 Dec 2008)
The Managing Director of Mylnefield Research Services (MRS), Dr Nigel Kerby, met the Chinese Minister of Agriculture, Mr Sun Zhengcai, at the official launch conference of the UK China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN).
(Published: 19 Nov 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.
(Published: 02 Oct 2008)
A new website outlining the research conducted for RERAD Programme 1: Developing Strategies for Profitable, Sustainable Agricultural Frameworks and Food Security has been launched.
(Published: 25 Sep 2008)
SCRI will take part in a free Innovation Showcase Business Day in November, which provides a unique opportunity for businesses to discover the academic expertise available at the University of Dundee, University of Abertay Dundee and SCRI.
(Published: 23 Sep 2008)
Recent graduates are being invited to find out more about SCRI's PhD opportunities at forthcoming careers fairs in Dundee and St Andrews.
(Published: 23 Sep 2008)
With recent record rainfall in many areas you could be forgiven for thinking we know all there is to know about water. But SCRI has been hosting a workshop that concentrated on nothing but water!
(Published: 08 Sep 2008)
Speaker presentations from the recent Improving International Potato Production conference are now available. The conference is Scotland's main event during the 2008 UN Year of the Potato.
(Published: 20 Aug 2008)
The Potato Council has honoured Jim Godfrey with a special award in recognition of his outstanding service to the British potato industry.
(Published: 11 Aug 2008)
A member of the SCRI Governing Board, Allan Stevenson, has been appointed Chairman of the Potato Council and a main Board Director of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
(Published: 21 Jul 2008)
SCRI has launched the latest Scottish raspberry which is likely to start appearing in supermarkets and shops around the UK during the next twelve months.
(Published: 25 Jun 2008)
For two days in August Scotland will become the focus of a global business worth at least £3 billion - the rapidly expanding potato industry.
(Published: 24 Jun 2008)
Scotland’s demands for food are becoming increasingly complex…and contradictory.
(Published: 28 May 2008)
A 35-year-old scientist at SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research and plant breeding, has been awarded the Peter Massalski Prize for meritorious research.
(Published: 27 May 2008)
SCRI is to have a new Chairman. Peter Berry, a former Chief Executive of the Crown Agents, is to head the Governing Board.
(Published: 18 Apr 2008)
Scientists at SCRI say there’s mounting evidence that raspberries grown in polytunnels are bigger and taste better than those grown out-of-doors and unprotected from the elements.
(Published: 19 Mar 2008)
Drinking black tea could help prevent diabetes, according to new findings by scientists at SCRI working with a team at Dundee University.
(Published: 03 Mar 2008)
The Scottish Government has proposed a new, single institute to bring together environmental and rural research.
(Published: 30 Jan 2008)
New publications outlining SCRI's research on the Cross-Cutting Themes of biodiversity, climate change and sustainability have been issued.
(Published: 29 Jan 2008)
Two top plant and environmental scientists from Scotland are swapping the fields and polytunnels of Perthshire for the cold deserts of Antarctica.
(Published: 04 Jan 2008)
SCRI – Scotland's world-renowned centre for crop research – is joining a consortium of world-leading scientists – including those who helped decode the entire human genome.
(Published: 28 Nov 2007)
Oats can help reduce cholesterol, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and have an impact on blood pressure when eaten as part of a low fat diet.
(Published: 07 Nov 2007)
A discovery made by scientists at SCRI could lead to more effective ways of combating the fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine.
(Published: 05 Nov 2007)
A uniquely Japanese concept of flavour may hold the key to breeding the perfect potato.
(Published: 28 Oct 2007)
The Dundee born scientist who heads the key Quality Health and Nutrition programme at SCRI has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
(Published: 26 Oct 2007)
Forty scientists and support staff at SCRI are being honoured with long service awards.
(Published: 22 Oct 2007)
A former SCRI PhD student, Dr Peter Waterhouse, has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in Australia.
(Published: 26 Sep 2007)
A top scientist at SCRI has been awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship to pursue his work on the resilience of Scottish agriculture in the face of global environmental change.
(Published: 19 Sep 2007)
Imagine a leaf the size of Scotland or bacteria the size of a car and you will get some idea of what it is like to see things two millions times their usual size.
(Published: 04 Sep 2007)
SCRI’s unique potato display – an eight feet (2.4 metre) polystyrene model of an Andean mountain – has won silver at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival.
(Published: 31 Aug 2007)
The Chinese government has given permission for the importation of Scottish seed potato mini tubers. It’s being hailed as a major breakthrough in a potentially huge market.
(Published: 29 Aug 2007)
The Chinese Government’s Minister Counsellor for Science and Technology has paid a visit to SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for crop research on the outskirts of Dundee.
(Published: 29 Aug 2007)
The sighting near Dundee of a butterfly more usually spotted south of the border could be a sign that climate change is bringing new species to Scotland’s gardens.
(Published: 16 Aug 2007)
SCRI – Scotland’s leading crop research institute – is aiming to share its world renowned research with more people than ever with a new more accessible and user-friendly website.
(Published: 13 Aug 2007)
Scotland’s leading centre for research on crops has emerged as a strong, new contributor to the Scottish economy.
(Published: 05 Jul 2007)
Scientists at Scotland’s leading crop research centre, SCRI at Invergowrie, have won a share of a £400,000 project to research techniques relevant for the safety assessment of GMOs.
(Published: 02 Jul 2007)
Scotland’s mountains are renowned across the world but this has to be the first time that a potato mountain has appeared in Edinburgh!
(Published: 13 Jun 2007)
“Shellsuit Bob Adams“ from BBC Scotland’s highly successful River City soap is to try his hand at life on the farm during the LEAF Open Farm Sunday event at Invergowrie’s SC
(Published: 04 Jun 2007)
If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise as you might just find the bears enjoying fresh Scottish raspberries instead of the usual teddy bears’ picnic.
(Published: 31 May 2007)
Scotland’s farmers are facing greater uncertainty over their profit margins and will also have to battle previously unknown pests and plant diseases as a result of climate change.
(Published: 05 Apr 2007)
A Scottish variety of raspberry, which didn’t much like the climate at home, has become a major success in the sunny weather of Spain.
(Published: 12 Mar 2007)
SCRI, Scotland’s leading centre for research on plants, has announced three, new members of its governing body. All three are outstanding specialists in their areas of interest.
(Published: 05 Mar 2007)
Some of Scotland’s top scientists are to lead a European project to discover how to make healthy food even better for us.
(Published: 08 Feb 2007)
Scotland can expect global warming to impact on biodiversity and human activities in areas such as the Cairngorms…and there may be more severe storms in the West of the country and flooding
(Published: 02 Feb 2007)
Scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie have won funding to help beat a potato disease that costs farmers around the world a staggering £3 billion a year.
(Published: 08 Jan 2007)
