Plant & Food Research

Plant & Food Research (Māori: Rangahau Ahumāra Kai) was a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI) that is now part of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science. Its purpose was to enhance the value and productivity of New Zealand's horticultural, arable, seafood and food and beverage industries. The interests of the institute were based in horticulture, arable and seafood research, specifically in the areas of sustainable production, bioprotection, elite genetics and intelligent breeding, food and health science and biomaterials; these have moved into the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science.

The institute was formed on 1 December 2008 by merging existing CRIs HortResearch and Crop and Food Research. Plant & Food has over 900 staff based at sites throughout New Zealand as well as science and business development staff working in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. The New Zealand Government disestablished the institute and its sister CRIs AgResearch, Scion, and Manaaki Whenua to create the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science on 1 July 2025.