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Keep up to date with specialist science news from Kew. Find out more about the latest research and projects that scientists and conservationists at Kew are involved in.
Kew contributes to the Brazilian Catalogue of Plants and Fungi
03 May 2011
Kew’s information resources on plant diversity have helped to compile a working list of all plants, algae and fungi in Brazil.
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Seeds and stress
11 Apr 2011
A new stress concept for seeds raises awareness of the challenges scientists face in researching stress associated with changing environments.
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Millennium Seed Bank seeds for Angola
11 Apr 2011
On a recent trip to Angola, UK Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham MP, presented tree seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank to the Agostinho Neto University in Luanda.
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Development of keeled flowers
25 Mar 2011
A study using scanning electron microscopy has revealed that the keeled petals of Leguminosae and Polygalaceae are fundamentally different.
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Caatinga biomass estimation
24 Mar 2011
Scientists from Kew and Brazil are analysing data from field experiments to determine the best way to manage trees for sustainable fuelwood production.
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Discovering new localities of a rare species in Georgia
23 Mar 2011
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Georgia made an exciting discovery in October last year when local nature lovers alerted the team to the presence of cyclamen in a district in West Georgia.
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Petenaeaceae – a new family of flowering plants
17 Mar 2011
A new family of flowering plants has been described to accommodate Petenaea cordata, a species of uncertain affinities.
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Publication of Samara 18/19 with a food security theme
15 Mar 2011
Samara is the newsletter of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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Conserving the starved wood sedge
14 Mar 2011
Staff at Wakehurst Place have reintroduced a critically endangered UK sedge to a site in Surrey.
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Waxcap conservation
09 Mar 2011
A new project at Kew will clarify species concepts in British waxcap fungi, and identify those species most in need of conservation.
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Conserving Darwin's Letters
by: Eleanor Hasler, Library, Art and Archives blog 17 May 2013
Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives.
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How to Create a “Slab-Planted” Bonsai
by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog 13 May 2013
Richard, Kew’s bonsai specialist, and renowned bonsai expert Nobuyuki Kajiwara look into the process of creating a “slab-planted” Japanese white pine bonsai.
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Is our daily cup of coffee under threat?
08 Nov 2012
A new study from Kew suggests that Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years.
World's smallest waterlily brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew
18 May 2010
Kew’s top propagation ‘code-breaker’, horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, has cracked the enigma of growing a rare species of African waterlily. The 'thermal’ lily (Nymphaea thermarum) is believed to be the smallest waterlily in the world, with pads that can be as little as 1 cm in diameter.
