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5 unusual facts about Horticulture Research International

Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables

In some cases this can actually make the plants immune to attack, as is the case with the lettuces Avoncrisp and Avondefiance which were bred at the Institute of Horticultural Research, Wellesbourne during the 1960s, which are fully resistant to lettuce root aphid (Pemphigus bursarius).

Horticulture Research International

The HRI was constituted in May 1990 from the AFRC 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 Hop Unit at Wye College and the ADAS Experimental Stations of MAFF at Efford, Kirton and Stockbridge.

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Warwick HRI was formed on 1 April 2004 following the integration of Horticulture Research International’s (HRI) sites at Wellesbourne and Kirton with the University of Warwick.

Lecanicillium longisporum

In horticulture and agriculture Lecanicillium Isolates were first developed by scientists at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute (now Warwick HRI: formerly part of Horticulture Research International).

Lecanicillium muscarium

In horticulture and agriculture Lecanicillium isolates were first developed by scientists at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute (now Warwick HRI: formerly part of Horticulture Research International).