Instytut ogrodnictwa INHORT (Research Institute of Horticulture)

Instytut Ogrodnictwa (INHORT), the Research Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, Poland is a governmental R&D organization supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It was established on January 1st, 2011, by merging two research units with long tradition and great achievements in horticultural sciences: the Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture and the Research Institute of Vegetable Crops. The new Institute is a legal and organizational successor of its predecessors and inherited their staff and properties as well as rights and obligations. Its research programme covers all areas related to fruit, vegetable, ornamental plant and bee sciences, from basic studies on physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, through biotechnology, breeding research and applied breeding, protection of genetic resources, agronomy, plant pathology and protection, fruit and vegetable storage and processing, food safety, horticultural engineering, economics and marketing.