New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science

And yeah, we're pretty pleased with ourselves.

And that was with colleagues from the Bioeconomy Science Institute and Brigato Research Institute and obviously here at the University of Otago.

And We were really quite chuffed with what we were able to produce, and it did fit that missing gap in the bat phylogeny.

So then they could actually say they had all the families, which is really important.

The basics of berry breeding in a few minutes? Let's go.

That's Pauline Kiribiru, scientist at Bioeconomy Science Institute in Motueka, South Island.

And I'm Katharine Rilago-Komar with today's Here Now podcast.

Now, there's a berry boom going on.

That's why it's very exciting.

We should celebrate more.

That was Dr Pauline Kerebiru, scientist at Bioeconomy Science Institute in Mochiweka, talking to me, Kadandri Ragokumar.

Every week I make an episode of the Here Now podcast, which you can catch on all your favourite podcast platforms, as well as on the RNZ website and RNZ National at 1.45pm every Monday.

The project saw seeds harvested from about 650 healthy trees and raised in a Rotorua nursery.

Selwyn Inslee, the Māori Partnerships lead for the Bioeconomy Science Institute, says he's excited to see the young trees return to their ancestral home.

The team that looked after these trees from seed to small seedlings, I'm just wrapped that they're here, seeing them in the environment and not in the nursery, here at the regional park at Te Kawerau a Maki, Tamaki Makaurau.

I'm very, very excited, yes.

Mind you, most people are.

Her name is Dr. Robin Dines, Principal Scientist and Pharma Engagement Specialist at Bioeconomy Science Institute.

What a handful that is.

Hey, Robin, I know you from your days as a board member for the Foundation of Arable Research.

A new guide's been launched to show farmers how to use native trees to help boost pollination and control pests, and even improve crop yield.

For five years, the beneficial biodiversity team at the Bioeconomy Science Institute has been monitoring plantings and insects on 60 farms in Canterbury.

And research found a 25% boost to seed production if native tree plantings were nearby instead of a bare fence line.

Hawke's Bay's winegrower group says it feels for Cellini's winemaking team and the wider community that will be affected by its closure.

It's because native trees, compared to, say, a bare fenceline, are a cozy home for tiny but helpful bugs.

For the last five years, the Beneficial Biodiversity team at the Bioeconomy Science Institute has been monitoring plantings and insects on about 60 farms in Canterbury.

Team leader Brad Howlett says one of the standout findings was a 25% boost to seed production if native tree plantings were nearby.

Near native plantings, we were getting really strong yield, pretty much full pollination, but where there's a bare fence, um, border, then we were still getting yield deficits.

research.

FRI, as you may know, or Forest Research Institute, now BSI, the Bioeconomy Science Institute.

We built up a company, a group in there called Sustainable Design, and we looked at waste-to-value technologies, and we created the IP system.

that underpinned Cetogenics a number of years ago, in fact.