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Emergency services respond to an incident involving chemicals at Plant and Food Research. Photo: RNZ / Rayssa Almeida

Workers from Plant and Food Research institute in Auckland's Mount Albert had to evacuate today after a chemical odour triggered the fire alarm about a 12.45pm.

Ten fire trucks responded to the call, alongside a Hato Hone St John ambulance and two police cars.

Firefighters have since left the scene.

A worker from the institute, who RNZ agreed not to name, said she heard about the incident from an emergency email.

"I got an email from work saying that this happened. We also have a group chat and some of our colleagues sent the video of the fire trucks coming through.

"I was off-site, I was on the field today since 6am, so I didn't know what was going on."

She said she also received an email from the day care centre looking after her two children.

"The day care is right next to the [research] building, so they saw everything.

"They emailed us advising the kids were safe."

Workers could not access their vehicles while emergency services were on-site, she said.

"I went out early in the morning with the [company] car to the field, but I couldn't bring it back because of the closure.

"A lot of people got taxis home, because our cars stayed inside the building and we could not get in."

Fire and Emergency said it worked with partner-agencies to contain the situation.

"Crews have since confirmed there is no risk and have handed the site back to owners," a spokesperson said.

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Smoke alarm at Mount Albert Plant and Food Research facility prompts emergency services hazmat response, fears of chemical incident

Benjamin Plummer

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Emergency services responded to an incident that was believed to involve chemicals in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert this afternoon.

Police said they were assisting Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) with an incident on Mount Albert Rd, which was reported to Police around 12.45pm.

A photo from a Herald reporter at the scene showed the Fenz Hazmat command unit outside the Plant and Food Research facility.

Fenz told the Herald crews were alerted through a fire alarm activation, and the incident was believed to involve chemicals.

Six pumps, three aerials and three specialist appliances were in attendance, said Fenz.

A Herald reporter said there were four fire trucks and the hazmat truck on site.

A spokesperson for the Plant and Food Research facility said a smoke detector in a lab at their Mt Albert research centre was activated earlier today, triggering an evacuation.

“Fire and Emergency NZ attended the site and investigated the event as per their normal procedures”.

“It is not known what triggered the alarm, however, FENZ have confirmed [there was] no risk to people or property and the site had been returned to Plant and Food Research for entry,” they said.

A Hato Hone St John spokesperson confirmed they had earlier dispatched an ambulance to the scene alongside one rapid response vehicle and one operations manager.

Benjamin Plummer is an Auckland-based reporter who covers breaking news. He has worked for the Herald since 2022.

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Plant & Food Research’s main Hamilton block has been at the centre of a $49m upgrade. [Research centre pictures on this page are provided courtesy of the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research. © Plant & Food Research]

It’s a Mt Albert landmark, unmissable on the left, just past Alberton Ave, as you drive east along Mt Albert Rd. At six storeys, it’s one of the biggest buildings in the district. Shrouded in scaffolding in recent months, it’s been even more noticeable.

What’s been going on? The answer: plenty.

Within a few weeks, a $49 million makeover of the Plant & Food research centre — dominated by the 43-year-old centrepiece Hamilton Building — will be completed to give Mt Albert one of the world’s most modern, state-of-the-art research facilities.

The whole site has been transformed since I used to visit regularly in the 1960s as science correspondent for the Herald . Some of it has been trimmed away, for housing and school needs; the 7ha that remain are virtually wall-to-wall science, running down the north-facing slopes from Mt Albert Rd.

The first major building was a two-storey art deco block opened in 1939 and named Cunningham after the then Director-General of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. It’s still there, part of the centre’s heritage.

For me, it’s one of the few familiar sights, now strengthened and restored to serve as a modern cafeteria and meeting rooms, part of the redevelopment scheme that started in October 2014. It’s dwarfed by the giant Hamilton Building, opened in 1973.

The more than 40 years since then are like an eternity for science. A total remake, to modernise the building and all services, was long overdue. Such facilities as fully contained laboratories, totally isolated from the outside environment, are not luxuries but necessities. Accommodation for what Plant & Food Mt Albert chief scientist Richard Newcomb describes as “really grunty” computers is indispensable.

But the purpose remains the same – to serve New Zealand’s horticultural industries, from the farm and orchard right through to the customer, at home and overseas; to keep in the forefront of innovation, in both products and markets; and to protect our borders against unwanted invaders that may affect not just our producers but our unique natural environment.

Over those 25 years, it has released 273 new cultivars (everyone knows Jazz and Envy apples) to New Zealand growers and contributed greatly to the four-fold growth in New Zealand’s food exports, to $28 billion.

By setting the highest standards for quality of product, innovation and delivery it has helped to maintain access for those exports to 124 countries.

As well, it has played a major part in biosecurity. As an example, this month, Plant & Food received the Prime Minister’s award for its rapid response to the bacterial kiwifruit vine-killing disease Psa. It’s no exaggeration to say that the disease, which emerged in November 2010, could have devastated the New Zealand kiwifruit industry. Plant & Food swung into action to mobilise a team of more than 100, including plant pathologists, breeders and orchard management specialists.

Kiwifruit exports since have not just recovered but boomed; Zespri exported $2.1 billion worth in the 2016-17 season, almost 20 per cent more than in the season before Psa was discovered. By 2030, a report suggests, the industry will contribute more than $6 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) and create 29,000 new jobs.

That’s not just happening in kiwifruit. Recent figures showed horticultural exports last year were worth more than $5 billion, and rising fast. Kiwifruit and wine make up the bulk, but every season, new products and varieties are added to the mix.

“New Zealand is in a unique position,” says Dr Newcomb. “Most of the food we produce is for export. We are premium producers.

“We produce not just enough to feed our own population [of 4.73 million] but enough to feed 30 to 40 million. We have to target customers willing to pay a premium.”

So, for instance, Plant & Food is working to find out what is it about New Zealand sauvignon blanc wines that makes them distinct from those in the rest of the world.

It’s not just a matter of increasing productivity and reducing inputs — market needs have to be met.

New Zealand growers have to be quickly adaptable; organic farming may, say, give lower yields at higher costs, but if the product can command a healthy premium in an overseas market, it might be an option well worth considering.

New Zealand is a world leader in such areas and long has been. The brand-new laboratories will allow Mt Albert to continue that tradition. The Prime Minister’s Science Prize includes a $400,000 fund which will be used to establish New Zealand as a hub for advances in bioprotection and to further the development of new scientific technologies to protect against biosecurity threats.

“This is becoming a bigger and bigger issue every year, as international freight and travel increase,” says Dr Newcomb. “It’s particularly important for us because of our isolation and, up until now, relative freedom from major threats. But the Psa episode showed how vulnerable we can be.”

How about the two disturbing current threats to our native forests, kauri dieback and myrtle rust? “We are contributing to the several teams that are working hard on both those,” he says.

So, if solutions are found — and the scientists emphasise it will not be easy — the world-class research institute in Mt Albert will have played its part. Again.

CAPTIONS (from the top down): An elevated view of Plant & Food Research’s Mt Albert centre, looking towards the mountain; scientists at work in a centre laboratory; construction under way on the dominant Hamilton Building, opened in 1974; the layout of the land in 1937. All pictures © Plant & Food Research

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Emergency services respond to incident near Auckland plant and food research facility

Emergency services are responding to an “active and ongoing” incident in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert.

Police said they are assisting Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) with an incident on Mount Albert Rd, which was reported to Police around 12.45pm.

A photo from a Herald reporter at the scene shows the Fenz Hazmat command unit outside the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) plant and food research facility.

A Herald reporter said there were four fire trucks and the hazmat truck and on site.

A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said: “This is an active and ongoing incident ... and we currently have one rapid response vehicle and one operations manager on the scene.”

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A review of current knowledge about the formation of native peridermal exocarp in fruit

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• 1 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, 120 Mt Albert Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025, New Zealand; and School of Biological Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, 120 Mt Albert Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025, New Zealand.
• 3 School of Biological Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, 55 Old Mill Road, RD3, Motueka 7198, New Zealand.
• 4 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, 412 No. 1 Road, RD2, Te Puke 3182, New Zealand; and Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
• PMID: 32571472
• DOI: 10.1071/FP19135

The outer skin layer in any plant is essential in offering a protective barrier against water loss and pathogen attack. Within fleshy fruit, the skin supports internal cell layers and can provide the initial cues in attracting seed-dispersing animals. The skin of a fruit, termed the exocarp, is a key element of consumer preference and a target for many breeding programs. Across fruiting species there is a huge diversity of exocarp types and these range from a simple single living cell layer (epidermis) often covered with a waxy layer, to complex multicellular suberised and dead cell layers (periderm), with various intermediate russet forms in between. Each exocarp can be interspersed with other structures such as hairs or spines. The epidermis has been well characterised and remains pluripotent with the help of the cells immediately under the epidermis. The periderm, in contrast, is the result of secondary meristematic activity, which replaces the epidermal layers, and is not well characterised in fruits. In this review we explore the structure, composition and mechanisms that control the development of a periderm type fruit exocarp. We draw upon literature from non-fleshy fruit species that form periderm tissue, from which a considerable amount of research has been undertaken.

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