Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership - More partners and research collaborators

Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank partnership has built up a network of partners and research collaborators in many countries around the world. This network is helping to save plant life under threat for our future.

Barry Greig from the Devonian Botanic Garden, Canada, collecting Pinus flexilis in the Eastern Rockies.

Other places in the world where we work

Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank partnership has a wide range of contacts in many countries. We have bilateral collaboration agreements on seed collecting and conservation with the following institutes in addition to those highlighted elsewhere:

Devonian Botanic Garden, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
Agricultural Research Organisation, Volcani Centre, Bet Dagan, Israel Plant Gene Bank (IGB), ISRAEL
Universidad de la Molina, PERU

Our research collaborators

Kew’s SCD has active science collaborations with over 150 institutions in 62 countries, including the EU-funded COST Action FA0901 on halophytes and the FP7 EcoSeed project on the impacts of environmental conditions on seed quality. Further collaborative research contacts include the following institutes:

• Argentina, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires
• Argentina, Banco Base de Germoplasma, CIRN-CNIA-INTA, Buenos Aires
• Argentina, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
• Argentina, University of Buenos Aires
• Australia, QLD Griffith University
• Australia, QLD The University of Queensland
• Australia, WA Curtin University
• Australia, WA The Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority at Kings Park, Perth
• Australia, WA University of Western Australia
• Austria, Karl-Franzens University of Graz
• Austria, University of Innsbruck
• Benin, Unité de Recherches Forestières (URF)
• Bolivia, Laboratorio Biotecnologia Biofan
• Botswana, Botswana College of Agriculture
• Botswana, National Tree Seed Centre
• Botswana, Veld Products Research and Development
• Brazil, Cenargen-Embrapa
• Brazil, Federal University of Bahia (UFBa)
• Brazil, Federal University of Lavras (UFLA)
• Brazil, Federal Univeristy of Mato Grosso (UFMT)
• Brazil, Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)
• Brazil, Federal University of Tocantins (UFT)
• Brazil, Federal University of Parana (UFPR)
• Brazil, Instituto Federal de Alagoas
• Brazil, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA)
• Brazil, São Paulo University (UNOESTE)
• Brazil, State University of São Paulo (UNESP)
• Brazil, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS)
• Brazil, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
• Brazil, UNOESTE, Presidente Prudente
• Bulgaria, University of Sofia
• Burkina Faso, Centre National de Semences Forestières (CNSF)
• Cape Verde, Institut Nacional de Investigacas Agraria (INIDA)
• Cayman Islands, National Trust of the Cayman Islands
• Chile, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias
• Chile, Jardín Botánico Nacional
• China, Beijing Botanic Gardens
• China, Beijing Forestry University
• China, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
• China, Hainan University
• China, Huanglong Nature Reserve
• China, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
• China, Kunming Institute of Botany
• China, Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
• China, Sichuan Hengduan Mountains Biotechnology
• China, Tarim University
• China, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
• Colombia, Cali Botanical Garden and Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
• Colombia, La Asociacion Vallecaucana de Orquideología
• Colombia, Vivero Medio Dapa
• Costa Rica, Estación Biológica La Selva
• Costa Rica, Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica
• Cote d’Ivoire, Centre National de Recherche Agronomique
• Cuba, Jardín Botánico Orquideario Soroa
• Cuba, National Enterprise for Flora and Fauna Protection, Santa Clara
• Denmark, University of Copenhagen
• Dominican Republic, Jardin Botanico Nacional “Dr Rafael Maria Moscoso”, Santo Domingo
• Ecuador, Jardín Botánico de Quito
• Ecuador, Universidad de Cuenca
• Ecuador, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
• Estonia, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• Ethiopia, Forestry Research Center (FRC)
• France, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et auz énergies alternatives (CEA Saclay)
• France, INRA, Laboratory of Seed Biology, Versailles
• France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Orchid conservation in West Africa)
• France, Jardin Botanique de la Ville de Lyon
• France, Limagrain Europe
• France, University Paris Est
• France, University of Pierre et Marie Curie
• France, University of Provence
• Germany, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Germany, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben
• Germany, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• Germany, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Germany, Universität Bielefeld
• Germany, University of Freiburg
• Ghana, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
• Greece, University of Athens
• Guatemala, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
• Guyana, University of Guyana
• India, Botanical Survey of India
• India, National Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Council of Agricultural Science
• India, National Research Centre for Orchids, Darjeeling
• Indonesia, Bogor Botanic Garden, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
• Italy, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
• Italy, State Forestry Service
• Italy, University of Catania
• Italy, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of Pavia
• Italy, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Italy, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
• Jordan, National Centre for Research and Extension
• Kenya, The Genebank of Kenya (GBK) at the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
• Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology
• Kenya, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)
• Kenya, Kenyatta University
• Korea, National Agrobiodiversity Center
• Lao PDR, Paksong Orchid Project
• Madagascar, Silo National des Graines Forestières (SNGF)
• Malawi, National Tree Seed Centre
• Malaysia, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), Kuala Lumpur
• Mali, Département de la Médecine Traditionnelle of the Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique
• Mali, Institut d'Économie Rurale (IER)
• Mali, Unite Semences Forestieres (USF-IER)
• Mali, Université de Bamoko
• Mexico, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C. México
• Mexico, Jardín Botánico Regional El Soconusco
• Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
• Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
• Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
• Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
• Nepal, Tribhuvan University
• New Zealand, Massey University
• Niger, Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques du Niger (INRAN)
• Nigeria, Seed Science Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ile-Ife
• Norway, University of Bergen
• Panama, Maduro’s Tropical Flowers
• Peru, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima
• Peru, Urbanización Los Nogales
• Philippines, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• Philippines, University of the Philippines Los Baños
• Poland, Institute of Dendrology Poznan
• Poland, Pedegogical University of Kielce
• Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan
• Russia, K.A. Timi Ryazev Institute of Plant Physiology
• Singapore, Singapore Botanic Gardens
• South Africa, City of Cape Town
• South Africa, Lowveld National Botanical Garden
• South Africa, South Africa National Parks (SANParks)
• South Africa, University of Cape Town
• South Africa, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
• South Africa, University of Stellenbosch
• Spain, Jardín Botánico de Sóller
• Spain, Universidad de Oviedo
• Spain, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena
• Spain, University of Salamanca
• St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, St. Eustatius National Park
• Taiwan, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
• Tanzania, Tanzania Tree Seed Agency (TTSA)
• Thailand, Mahidol University
• Thailand, Nongnooch Tropical Botanical Garden
• The Netherlands, NRC Handelsblad, Herengracht, Amsterdam
• The Netherlands, St Eustatius National Parks, St Eustatius, Dutch Antilles
• The Netherlands, Wageningen University
• Togo, Service des Semences Forestieres (SSF-MERF)
• Uganda, National Tree Seed Centre (NTSC-NFA)
• United Kingdom, Food and Environment Research Agency
• United Kingdom, Forestry Research
• United Kingdom, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• United Kingdom, James Hutton Institute
• United Kingdom, Imperial College London
• United Kingdom, McBeans Orchids
• United Kingdom, Plant Heritage
• United Kingdom, Royal Holloway, University of London
• United Kingdom, University College London
• United Kingdom, University of Aberdeen
• United Kingdom, University of Abertay, Dundee
• United Kingdom, University of Bedfordshire
• United Kingdom, University of Bristol
• United Kingdom, University of Cambridge
• United Kingdom, University of Leeds
• United Kingdom, University of Reading
• United Kingdom, University of Sheffield
• United Kingdom, University of Sussex
• United Kingdom, Warwick University
• USA, American Orchid Society
• USA, Atlanta Botanical Garden
• USA, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
• USA, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona
• USA, Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG)
• USA, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Texas
• USA, Southern University of Illinois
• USA, University of Connecticut
• Venezuela, Universidad de Los Andes Mérida-Venezuela
• Vietnam, Da Lat Institute of Biology