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SCIENCE AND Innovation Minister Steven Joyce says Government will invest $1.75 million to fund New Zealand-Singapore collaborative research projects on the development of food products with validated health benefits.

A TEAM OF New Zealand researchers from AgResearch and Plant & Food Research has unlocked an elaborate code to discover how coloured pigments in plants form.

NEW RESEARCH is being funded to help the potato industry fight the insect intruder - the tomato-potato psyllid.

New Zealand research scientist Dr Richard Newcomb has been appointed as the new chief scientist at Plant & Food Research, beating off candidates from 11 countries.

Two members of Plant & Food Research staff have won Fulbright New Zealand awards educational exchange with the United States.

A new wasp is being tested to help control coddling moth in the pipfruit industry.