New discoveries to science from Kew
Over 250 years, Kew has made many discoveries about the fascinating worlds of plants and fungi. Each year, many new species of plant and fungi are discovered by our world class scientists.
We discover new things about the plants and fungi every day. This includes how different species relate to one another and new ways to use plants to make life easier and better.
Plants are essential to life on earth. In a world where our changing environment is becoming less and less certain, the power of plants combined with Kew’s scientific expertise is ever more critical.
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60 year project documenting plants of East Africa celebrated at Kew Gardens
13 Sep 2012
A significant milestone in East African conservation and botany will be celebrated at Kew today, to mark the completion of The Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA). This vast 60 year project involved documenting and furthering knowledge of the region’s 12,104 wild plant species, including many plants new to science.
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Growing coffee
25 Jul 2012
The number of species in the coffee genus has increased from 104 to 124 as a result of a new systematic study.
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Diversity anomaly in Gladiolus
19 Jul 2012
Researchers have investigated why there are more species of Gladiolus in the Cape of southern Africa than in the Mediterranean Basin.
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Mechanistic insights into Old English plants
09 Jul 2012
Plants from the Queen’s Garden at Kew have been investigated for their potential to treat auto-immune diseases.
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Spot the chemical difference
26 Jun 2012
Scientists at Kew have devised a method to distinguish similar flavonoids when chemically profiling plant extracts.
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Mapping the Harapan Rainforest - how we did it
by: Jenny Williams, GIS team blog24 May 2012
Find out how Kew's GIS unit used remote sensing and field work to produce vegetation maps for the Harapan Rainforest Project.
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Diversification of land plants
04 Apr 2012
Researchers have reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants.
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African anti-thrips plant
28 Mar 2012
A plant in Kew’s Temperate House has been found to contain compounds toxic to thrips.
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Sympatric speciation contributes to island biodiversity
14 Mar 2012
Scientists discover at least 11 examples of sympatric speciation on Lord Howe Island.
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Plant diversification in the Cape of South Africa
06 Mar 2012
Research suggests that the high levels of biodiversity in the Cape of South Africa have been promoted by a combination of complex environmental conditions and climatic stability.
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