{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} '''Warwick HRI''' (formerly '''Horticulture Research International''') was a [[United Kingdom]] organisation tasked with carrying out [[horticultural]] [[research and development]] and transferring the results to industry in England.

==History== Horticulture Research International (HRI) was constituted in May 1990 from the [[Agricultural and Food Research Council]] Institute of Horticultural Research Stations at [[Wellesbourne]] (the National Vegetable Research Station), [[East Malling]] (the [[East Malling Research Station]]) and Littlehampton (the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute), the [[Wye College#Hop research|Hop Research Unit]] at [[Wye College]] and the [[ADAS (company)|ADAS]] Experimental Stations of the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]] at Efford, Kirton and Stockbridge.

Warwick HRI was formed on 1 April 2004 following the integration of HRI's sites at [[Wellesbourne]] and [[Kirton, Lincolnshire|Kirton]] with the [[University of Warwick]]. The Kirton site was closed by the university in February 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/whri/kirton | title=Kirton Research Centre | publisher=[[University of Warwick]] | date=2009-03-02 | accessdate=2009-03-02 }}</ref>

The Wellesbourne site covered an area of 191 hectares and contained protected crop facilities, glasshouses, a bioconversion unit, controlled environment units and laboratory facilities including the Genomic Resource Centre. The Kirton site spanned 50 hectares, with seed handling equipment and a 4-hectare organic area.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Research at Warwick HRI included [[plant science]], crop and environmental sciences, applied microbial sciences and applied horticulture. Postgraduate taught and research degrees were offered.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

In November 2009, Warwick University announced that it had decided to close Warwick HRI as the centre was losing the university £2&nbsp;million a year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://groups.google.com/group/nvrs-hri-gg/web/archive | title=NVRS-HRI Google Group Archives | publisher=NVRS-HRI Google Group | accessdate=2009-12-13 }}</ref> Warwick HRI was merged with the University's Department of Biological Sciences into a new School of Life Sciences in October 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci|title=School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick |website=[[University of Warwick]]}}</ref> Some research work on vegetable genetic improvement continued at the Crop Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/vegin/ |title=VeGIN |website=[[University of Warwick]]}}</ref>

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[[Category:Agricultural research institutes in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Horticultural organisations based in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Research institutes in Warwickshire]] [[Category:Science and technology in Lincolnshire]] [[Category:University of Warwick]]