Gold, Kate M.
Job TitleInternational Projects Coordinator
DepartmentSeed Conservation
SectionCollection and Network Support
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 2001
Foreign Language(s): Spanish (fluent).
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Agricultural Botany, Univ. Reading, 1983
MSc, Seed Technology, Univ. Edinburgh, 1986
PhD, Univ. Edinburgh, 1991.
Role
Management of MSBP partnerships in Chile and Mozambique by initiating, developing and strengthening working relationships with a range of technical and government partners.
Strategic leadership of Capacity Building and Technology Transfer activities. Specific technical input to livelihood improvement and food security activities. Line management of MSB training specialist
Project management support to wider MSBP partnerships, projects and networks.
Projects
- Improving the Identification, Handling and Storage of ‘Difficult’ Seeds
- Darwin Initiative Research Exercise on Community Tree Seeds (DIRECTS) in Africa
(project completed 2006) - Enhancing human livelihoods and the conservation and restoration of Mozambique’s biodiversity
- Ex situ Conservation, Propagation and Re-introduction of Endemic, Endangered and Vulnerable Plant Species from the Arid Lands of Chile
- A Forest Restoration Research Unit Facilitating Biodiversity Recovery in Cambodia
- Seed Research and Technical Cooperation with Brazil
- Millennium Seed Bank China Programme
Selected Recent Publications
Gold, K., León-Lobos, P. & Way, M.(2004). Manual de recolección de semillas de plantas silvestres. Boletín INIA 110. La Serena, Chile: Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Centro Regional de Investigación Intihuasi. 62 pp.
Gold, K. & Way, M.J. (2004). Seed Conservation of the Latinamerican flora - An international opportunity. Lyonia 6(1): 19-24. [Available at http://www.lyonia.org/viewArticle.php?articleID=212]
Selected Earlier Publications
Gold, C.M., Duffus, C.M. & Russell, G.R. (1990). Environmental effects on alpha-amylase activity during grain development in winter wheat cultivars. Aspects of Applied Biology (Cereal Quality II) 25: 159-162.
Gold, C.M. & Bravo, E. (1993). El valor de los bosques tropicales amazonicos. In Amazonia por la Vida. Acción Ecológica, Quito. 87-90.
Gold, C.M. & Duffus, C.M. (1993). The effect of gibberellic acid-insensitive dwarfing genes on pre-maturity alpha-amylase and sucrose relationships during grain development in wheat. In Walker-Simmons, M.K. (ed.) Sixth International Symposium on Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 171-177.
Gold, C.M. & Duffus, C.M. (1994). The use of ear culture to study the effect of drying rate on alpha-amylase activity in near-isogenic lines of wheat cv. Maris Huntsman. Cereal Research Communications.
Gold, C.M. & Duffus, C.M. (1995). Pre-maturity alpha-amylase production in cereal grains. In Seventh International Symposium on Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 363-369.
