People
Gold, Kate M.
| Job Title | Training Manager |
|---|---|
| Department | Seed Conservation |
| Section | Technology & Training |
| Science Teams |
Millennium Seed Bank Project |
| 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
Planning, designing, delivering and evaluating training; Seed management techniques of small-scale farmers; seed biology of Passifloraceae.
Planning, organising, delivering and evaluating formal and informal training courses at MSB and in-country; development and production of training materials and other information products; liaison with Kew education staff to integrate MSBP training activities with other Kew internal and external training initiatives. Support to the Kenya Seeds for Life community-based activities, to enable them to meet agreed conservation targets. Management responsibility for capacity-building project with FAO.
Projects
Darwin Initiative Research Exercise on Community Tree Seeds (DIRECTS) in Africa
Improving the Identification, Handling and Storage of ‘Difficult’ Seeds
Review and Improvement of Farm-Based Post-Harvest Handling and Seed Storage Technologies
Theme: Post-Harvest Technology
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.
