Postal Address
Private Bag 92169
Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142
Physical Address
120 Mt Albert Road
Sandringham
Auckland 1025
Tel: +64 9 925 7000
Fax: +64 9 925 7001

Our Mt Albert campus, near central Auckland, operates as Plant & Food Research’s head office. The site features new purpose–built buildings and glasshouses alongside historical buildings that date back to the origins of the DSIR.
Key Facts
- ~300 staff, including 180 research staff
- Extensive glasshouse, postharvest, and molecular biology laboratory facilities
- Sensory & Consumer Science facilities
- Purpose designed insect rearing rooms and quarantine facilities
- Food laboratories
Areas of research include:
- Breeding Technologies
- Plant Genomics
- Biosecurity
- Bioprotection Technologies
- Plant Pathology & Mycology
- Applied Entomology
- Biological Chemistry & Bioactives
- Bioresources Engineering & Chemistry
- Food & Wellness
- Food Solutions
- Human Responses
- Postharvest Fresh Foods
- Crop & Fruit Production Systems
- Systems Modelling