Mt Albert, Auckland

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