Its customers include UK Research Councils, Government Departments, the EC, Overseas agencies, growers, grower-funded levy bodies and the commercial industry. HRI manages world class facilities on five sites in the UK, and is being increasingly contracted to work internationally on a massive range of commercial crops. HRI conducts research across the complete spectrum from fundamental research to technology transfer. New knowledge is rapidly transferred from fundamental and strategic studies into production systems.
Ideas also flow from applied work back to basic and strategic science.
Science across HRI is organised into Research Area Science Teams . These, in turn, provide the valuable support for the Business Units within the Business Development department. Knowledge and advancements made with these crops enables HRI to work on the full range of commercial crops worldwide. List of Sites HRI's Mission To innovate and communicate for the benefit of consumers and producers of horticultural and other plant-based products . . It is vital that the results of public funded research are disseminated rapidly for the benefit of the horticultural industry.