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Scottish Crop Research Institute

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Former type
  
Registered Charity

Key people
  
Peter Gregory

Headquarters
  
Dundee, United Kingdom

Founded
  
1951

Defunct
  
31 March 2011

Fate
  
Merged

Website
  
www.scri.ac.uk

Founder
  
Bryan Harrison

Predecessor
  
Scottish Horticultural Research InstituteScottish Plant Breeding Station

Subsidiaries
  
Mylnefield Research Services

The Scottish Crop Research Institute more commonly known as the SCRI was a scientific institute located in Invergowrie near Dundee, Scotland. As of April 2011, when SCRI merged with the Macaulay Land Use Institute it is now part of The James Hutton Institute.

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History

The institute was opened in 1951 in Invergowrie under the name Scottish Horticultural Research Institute (SHRI). In 1981, the SHRI merged with the Scottish Plant Breeding Station (SPBS), which at the time was located near Edinburgh. Operations of the SPBS moved to the institute's site at Invergowrie and became the Scottish Crop Research Institute. In 1987 the institute accepted managerial responsibility for Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, formerly the Scottish Agricultural Statistics Service. The commercial arm of the SCRI, Mylnefield Research Services, was launched in 1989. In April 2011 SCRI merged with the Macaulay Land Use Institute to form a new body, The James Hutton Institute. The chief executive of the new institute is Professor Iain Gordon.

Research

The SCRI has both staff and PhD students who do research into several different aspects of plant science. Research facilities include laboratories, office space, glasshouses, growth chambers and 172 hectares of land which is used for field work. Research at SCRI is organised into four programmes: environment plant interactions, plant pathology, genetics and plant products and food quality. The institute carries out research funded by the Scottish Government's "Programme 1" for profitable and sustainable agriculture and the co-ordinator of Programme 1 is staff member Professor Howard Davies. The institute is also undertaking research into how climate change in Scotland will affect crop production, as the institute is involved with the Scottish Government's Agriculture and Climate Change Stakeholder Group.

References

Scottish Crop Research Institute Wikipedia


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