Thomas, Sheila
Job TitleSeed Conservation Assistant
DepartmentSeed Conservation
SectionCuration
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1998
Role
Initial receipt and assessment of incoming collections, followed by the cleaning, x-raying, counting, banking and germination testing of the received collections. Cleaning undertaken by volunteers is organised and supervised. If necessary, regeneration and harvesting of relevant collections is performed. The associated wild-collected herbarium specimens are dispatched for verification within three months to the Kew Herbarium. Managing the cultivated vouchers growing in glasshouses. Stock control of glasshouse material grown for research and the seed bank. In addition research into seed dormancy issues in the families Labiatae, Guttiferae, Linaceae, Moringaceae, Salvadorace, is carried out.
