# Warwick HRI

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**Warwick HRI** (formerly **Horticulture Research International**) was a [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) organisation tasked with carrying out [horticultural](/source/Horticultural) [research and development](/source/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](/source/Agricultural_and_Food_Research_Council) Institute of Horticultural Research Stations at [Wellesbourne](/source/Wellesbourne) (the National Vegetable Research Station), [East Malling](/source/East_Malling) (the [East Malling Research Station](/source/East_Malling_Research_Station)) and Littlehampton (the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute), the [Hop Research Unit](/source/Wye_College#Hop_research) at [Wye College](/source/Wye_College) and the [ADAS](/source/ADAS_(company)) Experimental Stations of the [Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food](/source/Ministry_of_Agriculture%2C_Fisheries_and_Food_(United_Kingdom)) at Efford, Kirton and Stockbridge.

Warwick HRI was formed on 1 April 2004 following the integration of HRI's sites at [Wellesbourne](/source/Wellesbourne) and [Kirton](/source/Kirton%2C_Lincolnshire) with the [University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick). The Kirton site was closed by the university in February 2009.[1]

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.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Research at Warwick HRI included [plant science](/source/Plant_science), crop and environmental sciences, applied microbial sciences and applied horticulture. Postgraduate taught and research degrees were offered.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In November 2009, Warwick University announced that it had decided to close Warwick HRI as the centre was losing the university £2 million a year.[2] Warwick HRI was merged with the University's Department of Biological Sciences into a new School of Life Sciences in October 2010.[3] Some research work on vegetable genetic improvement continued at the Crop Centre.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Kirton Research Centre"](http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/whri/kirton). [University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick). 2 March 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["NVRS-HRI Google Group Archives"](https://groups.google.com/group/nvrs-hri-gg/web/archive). NVRS-HRI Google Group. Retrieved 13 December 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick"](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci). *[University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["VeGIN"](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/vegin/). *[University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick)*.

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