Position: Founder, Zealong. Field: Horticulture. Meet Vincent Chen, founder of Zealong, a successful New Zealand company that grows, processes and packages a tea that is unique in New Zealand and ...
Position: Senior research scientist, Plant & Food Research. Field: Phytochemical antioxidants. David was born in England and attended Wallington High School, near London, where he discovered ...
Zealong is New Zealand’s only commercial tea plantation. Zealong grows, processes and packages its tea in New Zealand and markets it as a niche product around the world including traditional ...
Genetic modification has been used in Aotearoa New Zealand since the 1970s. It is used in research laboratories and in contained field tests, in some medicines and medical research and as part of ...
Myrtle rust is a serious biosecurity threat, and help is needed to monitor its spread. This citizen science project aims to gather information on the location, hosts and intensity of this fungal ...
By comparing some features of fossilised plants with the same features of plants living today, scientists hope to be able to learn more about the effect of changing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in ...
iNaturalist logs hundreds of thousands of photos of flora, fauna and fungi. There are even sound recordings too. Each is described and geo located. iNaturalist is used by citizens and scientists ...
In this unit, students investigate trends and drivers and what may be possible and preferable attributes for new fruit varieties in the future. Purpose To understand the influences currently ...
A Year 9 class visited a local lavender farm as part of a biotechnology unit investigating the production, packaging and marketing of lavender oil for aromatherapy. The purpose of the field trip ...
RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which RNA inhibits gene expression. It is a natural process in cells. As a biotechnology tool, RNA interference ‘silences’ a gene by using a ...
Vincent Chen, founder of Zealong, shares his advice to young people to encourage skills for innovation. He highlights the importance of confidence and learning from others, in particular, the ...
Plant & Food Research’s Dr David Stevenson explains what free radicals are and how they are produced. He outlines the role of cellular structures called mitochondria in the production of free ...
This video story presents an overview of the development of Zealong tea – the only tea commercially grown and processed in New Zealand. Starting with only 130 imported tea plants, Zealong now has ...
This timeline follows the discovery of the bacterial disease Psa (Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae) in New Zealand, the combined efforts to first contain and manage the disease and the ...
About 45 different attributes are assessed at various stages of developing a new apple cultivar at Plant & Food Research. Click on the labels in this interactive to learn about some of these ...
This interactive illustrates a technique used by scientists to generate transgenic plants.
