HRI is a non-Departmental Public Body responsible to the UK's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Our customers include UK research councils, government departments, the EC, overseas agencies, growers and grower-funded levy bodies. HortiTech is the commercial and marketing arm of HRI, responsible for the commercial exploitation or packaging to businesses of this primary source of scientific knowledge. HRI-HortiTech 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.
Knowledge and advancements made with these species enable HRI-HortiTech to work on the full range of commercial crops worldwide. HRI has a particularly strong research and development programme in brassicas which covers the complete range of scientific disciplines encompassing fundamental science on genomics to commercial crop production and post-harvest studies. Please do not hesitate to ask any member of HRI staff about the research and facilities at Wellesbourne. We will be providing site tours on Wednesday and Friday for those who are interested.