Projects

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A Genomic Approach to Understanding Seed Dormancy

A Novel Role for Phytochrome in Dormancy Release Inhibition

Additions to Rubiaceae for the Flora of Tropical East Africa

African Lamiaceae

African Plants Initiative

African Wild Harvest

Africulture Centre

Aloes (Aloaceae) of Madagascar Identification Guide

Anatomical Identification of Plant Material

Anatomy of the Dicotyledons

Anatomy of the Monocotyledons

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III

Application of Unconventional Supporting Systems for the Rooting of Critically Endangered Tree Species

Araceae Taxonomic Knowledge Base

Are Helleborine Orchids Epiparasitic Upon Ectomycorrhizal Associations?

Are there Keystone Ectomycorrhizal Fungi that Mediate Tree Invasion of Lowland Heathlands?

Assessing and Conserving Plant Diversity in Commercially Managed Tropical Rainforests in Sabah

Assessment and Management of Red List and Endemic Plant Species, Namibia

Australian Virtual Herbarium

Authentication and Chemical Fingerprinting of Economically Important Species

Baseline Data for the Conservation of Coffee Species (Rubiaceae)

Biogeography and Conservation of Myrciinae (Myrtaceae)

Biogeography of the Leguminosae

Biophysical Aspects of Seed Ageing (Orthodox Seeds)

British Club and Coral Fungi: a Textbook on the British and Irish Clavarioid and Ramarioid Fungi (Basidiomycota)

Cacti of Eastern Brazil

CAR Biodiversity: Understanding How Knowledge of Biodiversity Accumulates Through Capacity-Building in the Central African Republic

CBD Advice to Government

CBD Capacity Building

Cell Inclusions

CEPF Madagascar Vegetation Mapping

Checklist of British and Irish Basidiomycota: Web Version and Revised Edition

Chemistry and Biological Activity of Myrtaceae

Chemistry of Passiflora (Passifloraceae)

Chemosystematics and Biological Activity of Alismatid and Lilioid Monocots

Chemosystematics and Biological Activity of Lamiaceae

CITES Capacity Building

CITES Checklists

CITES Trade Research

CITES-Listed Timbers

CITES: UK Scientific Authority

Climate Change Induced Temporal and Spatial Shift Asynchrony in Orchid-Pollinator Interactions

Co-Evolution at the Plant-Animal Interface

Coffee (Rubiaceae) Phylogeny

Collaborative Fieldwork and Vegetation Studies in Ethiopia

Comparative Longevity (Orthodox Seeds)

Complete Generic Phylogenetic Tree for all Seed Plants

Compositae of Brazil

Conservation and Monitoring of Meso-American Orchids

Conservation Checklist of the Trees of Uganda

Conservation Genetics of UK Plants

Consider the Lilies

Cyathium Evolution in Euphorbieae (Euphorbiaceae)

Darwin Initiative Assessment of the Coastal Biodiversity of Anegada, British Virgin Islands

Darwin Initiative Research Exercise on Community Tree Seeds (DIRECTS) in Africa

Darwin 15/036: Monitoring and Managing Biodiversity Loss in South-East Africa’s Montane Ecosystems

Database for UK Fungi of Conservation Importance

Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) of Borneo

Developing a Species and Specimens Database for the UKOTs Programme

Developing Ex Situ Conservation Collections of UKOTs Species In-Territory and at Kew

Development of Predictive Tool of Germination Requirements for MSB Collections

Digital Ecosystem for Extinction Risk Assessment (DEERA)

Digitising the Specimens and Archive of A.F.G. Kerr, Pioneering Botanist in Thailand

Diversity of Biologically Active Plants and Plant-Derived Compounds

Diversity of Neotropical Meliaceae

Diversity of Neotropical Sapotaceae

DNA Banking of the UK Flora: a Resource for Conservation Genetics and Comparative Plant Biology

DNA Banking, Phylogeny and Conservation of the South African Flora

Do ‘Intermediate’ Seeds Exist? Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Cold Stress

Documenting and Analysing Patterns in the Diversity and Distribution of Flowering Plant Genera

Does One Seed Collection Represent the Genetic Diversity of a Population? A Seed Harvest Study

Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocot Type Specimens

electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC)

Enabling the People of Montserrat to Conserve the Centre Hills

Essays on the Forests of Tropical Asia

Establishing a Standard DNA Barcode for Land Plants

Establishing the Use of Metabolomics / Genomics to Identify Diagnostic Markers of Seed Quality

European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)

European Native Seed Conservation Network (ENSCONET)

European Network for Biodiversity Information

Evolution of Tribe Poranthereae (Phyllanthaceae)

Evolutionary Origin of Biodiversity Hotspots with a Mediterranean Climate (HOTMED)

Ex situ Conservation of Endemic, Endangered and Vulnerable Plant Species from the Arid Lands of Chile

Ex situ Conservation of Plant Germplasm from Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico

Ex Situ Conservation of Recalcitrant Seeds: Towards the Delivery of Target 8 of the GSPC

Ex Situ Conservation of Threatened Chilean Flora Through Propagation

Ex Situ Conservation of Threatened UK Bryophytes

Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar

Field Guide to the Palms of Madagascar

Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Thailand

Field Guides: Published and Planned

Flora of China

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Flora Zambesiaca

Flora Zambesiaca: Leguminosae

Floral Evolution

Floral Evolution in Lamiales

Frequency of Desiccation Tolerance in Targeted Taxa, including Palms: Ecological Associations and Predictions

Fuelwoods: Structure and Sustainability

Fungal DNA Barcoding at Kew: Closing the Sequence Gap

Fungal Metabolites: their Ecological Role and Economic Potential

Genera Graminum Edition 2

Genera of Cyperaceae

Genera Orchidacearum

Genera Palmarum Edition 2

Generic Delimitation in Cyperaceae Tribe Cypereae

Genetic Polymorphisms in Populations of Aesculus hippocastanum across Europe

Genomic Studies in Angiosperms

Genomic Studies in Monocots

Germination Micro-Site Perception: the Role of Light Quality and Quantity

Global Overview of Lamiaceae and Related Families

Granite outcrop plants- biogeography, evolution and conservation

Grass Evolution, Anti-Herbivory and Past Climate

Grasses and Sedges of Britain and Ireland

Grasses of Thailand

Guide to the Alpine and Subalpine Flora of Mt Jaya

Guinea Yams of Ethiopia

Guinea-Conakry: Developing a National Herbarium and Survey of the Simandou Range

Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Use of Southern Peruvian Dry Forest

Haemodoraceae - phylogenetics, biology and conservation

Importance of Legumes and Legume-Derived Compounds in Medicine and Agriculture

Improving the Identification, Handling and Storage of ‘Difficult’ Seeds

In Ivan’s wake: a Darwin Initiative Biodiversity Action Plan for the Cayman Islands

In Vitro Conservation of Bottle Palm (Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (L. Bailey) H.E. Moore)

In Vitro Propagation of Café Marron (Ramosmania rodriguesii, Rubiaceae)

Old climatically-buffered infertile landscapes - evolution and conservation of biodiversity

Integrating National Parks, Education and Community Development for the British Virgin Islands

Interactions between Climate and Plant Species Function and Distribution for Recalcitrant Seeded Taxa

Interactive Key to African Plants

Interactive Key to Neotropical Flowering Plant Families

Interactive Key to the Genera of Malpighiales

Interactive Key to the Malesian Seed Plants

International Plant Names Index (IPNI)

Introgression of Abiotic Stress Response Genes across Hybrid Zones in Populus

Investigating Seed Drying: the Development of Low Technology Drying Options and Methods for Measuring Seed Moisture Status

iPlants

Isoflavonoids of the Leguminosae

Jumping Seed Storage Types: Effect of Developmental Heat Sum at Continental Scales on the Seed Desiccation Tolerance Trait

Karyotype Evolution in Crucifers (Brassicaceae)

Kew Latin America Research Fellowships

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

Legume Seed Collection for the Millennium Seed Bank

Legumes of the World Online

Liberia GIS: National Plant Conservation Prioritisation

Madagascar GIS

Madagascar Houseplants

Madagascar Threatened Plants Project

Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme

Maternal Environment and Provenance Effects on Seed Longevity

Maternal Environment Effects on Seed Germination and Dormancy: Inter-Site and -Season Comparisons

Maximising Longevity in Orchids and other Socio-economically Important, but Potentially Short-lived, Species

Maximising Seed Quality: Maturity and Post-harvest Studies

Medicinal Uses of British Plants

Mefou Proposed National Park, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist

Millennium Seed Bank Project China Programme

Millennium Seed Bank Project in Jordan

Millennium Seed Bank Project in Lebanon

Millennium Seed Bank Project in Namibia

Millennium Seed Bank Project in South Africa

Millennium Seed Bank Project in Tasmania

Millennium Seed Bank Project in the Northern Territory of Australia

Mimosoid Pollen in Madagascar

Moisture Relations of Seed Longevity (and their Limits; Orthodox Seeds)

Molecular and Biophysical Dissection of Changes in Dormancy in Seeds of Sisymbrium officinale and Arabidopsis thaliana

Molecular Genetic Analysis of a Barrier to Gene Flow Between Two Ecologically Divergent Populus Species

Molecular Phylogenetics of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato

Molecular Phylogenetics of Palms

Molecular Phylogenetics of Tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae)

Molecular Population Genetics of Four Closely Related Alcantarea Species (Bromeliaceae) Adapted to ‘Inselbergs’ in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

Monocot Checklist

Monocot Floral Evolution

Monocot Pollen Evolution

Monograph of Octoknema (Olacaceae)

Monograph of Omphalocarpum (Sapotaceae)

Morphological Innovations in Poales

Morphometrics and Phylogeography of Anthurium and Monstera (Araceae) in NE Brazil

MSB Enhancement Project Part 1A – Species Targeting

Myrciinae (Myrtaceae) Genera for Flora Neotropica and Flora of the Guianas

New Cactus Lexicon

New Phylogeny of the Caesalpinioideae, Leguminosae

New World Lamiaceae

Non-Invasive Techniques in Seed Metabolomics

Oilseeds – Biogeographical Effects on Composition in Relation to Sustainable Use 

Oxidative Stress and Death Phenomena

Palms of New Guinea

Phylogenetics and Conservation of Madagascan Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae)

Phylogenetics of Araceae

Phylogenetics of Orchidaceae

Phylogenetics of the Monocots

Phylogeny and Pollination Biology of Westringieae, Lamiaceae

Phylogeny of Eugenia and Eugeniinae (Myrtaceae)

Phylogeny of Subtribe Myrciinae (Myrtaceae)

Phylogeny of Tribe Myrteae (Myrtaceae)

Plant Diversity and Conservation in Bolivia

Plant Diversity Challenge: the Official UK Response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

Plant DNA C-Values Database

Plant Information for Northeast Brazil

Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)

Plant-Insect Interactions

Pollen Evolution

Pollen of Polygalaceae

Polyhydroxyalkaloids in Euphorbiaceae sensu stricto

Population Genetics of UK Orchids

Poroid Fungi from Korup National Park, Cameroon

Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of Danthoniopsis and Related Genera (Arundinelleae s.l., Panicoideae, Poaceae)

Programmed Cell Death in Seeds

Promoting Sustainable Plant Use in Northeast Brazil

Proteome Responses to Desiccation in Talauma ovata Seeds

Pteris adscensionis (Pteridaceae) Cryopreservation

Publication of 2003 AETFAT Proceedings

Reactive Oxygen Species as Markers of Seed Quality

Rehydration / Priming Treatment Effects on Seed Quality

Repatriation of Herbarium Data for Northeastern Brazil

Repatriation of NE Brazilian Legumes

Review and Improvement of Farm-Based Post-Harvest Handling and Seed Storage Technologies

Richard Spruce Collection

Role of ‘Underdeveloped’ Embryos in Germination/ Dormancy Problems

Rubiaceae of Brazil

Rubiaceae of Madagascar

Sainsbury Orchid Conservation: In Vitro Propagation and Re-Establishment of UK Terrestrial Orchids

Salicaceae sensu lato and Achariaceae sensu lato for Kubitzki’s Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

Salvia (Lamiaceae)

Screening for Physical Dormancy (MSBP Collections)

Collecting and Conserving Threatened and Useful Wild Species from Botswana and Building Seed Conservation Capacity

Collecting and Conserving Wild Species from Burkina Faso and Mali and Building Seed Conservation Capacity

Collecting and Conserving Wild Species from Madagascar and Building Seed Conservation Capacity

Collecting and Conserving Wild Species from Malawi and Building Seed Conservation Capacity

Western Everlasting: A Seed Conservation Collaboration between the WA Dept of Conservation & Land Management, Kings Park & Botanic Gardens, Greening Australia (WA) and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

SACRED Seeds: A Seed Conservation Partnership between the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

SEEDS FOR LIFE: a Seed Partnership between Kenya Seed Conservation Agencies and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

A Seed Conservation Partnership between Tanzanian Seed Conservation Organisations and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

Seeds for Life (Qld): a Seed Conservation Partnership between the QSEED Consortium and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

Seed Information Database (SID)

Seed Responses to Climate Change and Environmental Extremes

Seed Viability and Ageing Defined by Glutathione Redox Potential

SeedQuest New South Wales: An International Partnership for Plant Conservation

Seeds of Success USA: Native Plant Materials for Conservation and Restoration

Seeds of the Monocots

Separating Cardinal Temperatures for Seed Dormancy and Germination in Temperate, Sub-Tropical and Tropical Species

Significant Trade in CITES Plants

Solving Seed Germination Problems in Conservation Collections

South American Myrteae (Myrtaceae) Online

Southern Madagascar Littoral Forest Tree Guide

Stachytarpheta (Verbenaceae) in Brazil

Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL)

Sustainable Management of Fuelwood Trees in the Caatinga of Northeast Brazil

Sympatric Speciation in Palms: Howea on Lord Howe Island

Synthesis of Systematic Resources

Systematics, evolution and conservation of Australian orchids

Systematics and conservation of Western Australian Eucalypts

Systematic Phytochemistry of Legumes

Systematic Study of Tribe Indigofereae (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)

Systematics and Biogeography of Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae) of Madagascar

Systematics and Conservation Genetics of Asparagales

Systematics and Conservation Genetics of Liliales

Systematics and Evolution of Pandanales

Systematics and Evolution of the Tropical African Genus Hymenostegia (Detarieae: Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae)

Systematics and Phylogenetics of Cyperaceae Subfamily Mapanioideae

Systematics of Dioscoreales

Systematics of Lamiaceae Subfamily Viticoideae

Systematics of Neotropical Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)

Systematics of the Tropical African Genus Berlinia (Detarieae: Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae)

Systematics of Tribe Oncobeae (Salicaceae/ Achariaceae/ Flacourtiaceae)

Systematics, Sustainable Use and Conservation of Tribe Ocimeae (Basil and Allies, Lamiaceae)

Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation - Global Checklists

Taxonomic Research on Ecologically Important Plant Families in South East Asia

Taxonomic Studies of Neotropical Plant Families

Testing the Role of Ecological Selection and Clonal Reproduction in Hybrid Zone Persistence in European Populus

Thai Cyperaceae: Distribution and Conservation

The Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASE)

The CBD for Botanists

The Plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist

The Plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains: A Conservation Checklist

The Role of Nitrate in Breaking Dormancy

The Sampled Red List Index for Plants

The Victorian Conservation Seedbank

Theme: Climate and Reproductive Biology

Theme: Diagnosis of Viability and Germination

Theme: Ecophysiology and Morphology

Theme: Genetics and Chemical Traits

Theme: Post-Harvest Technology

Theme: Preservation Technology

Theme: Science of Ageing

Towards a DNA Barcode for the British Lichenized Fungi (Lichens)

Towards Universally Applicable Seed Viability Stains

Tree Flora of Peru

Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak: Myrtaceae

UK Darwin Initiative Papuan Plant Diversity

Understanding and Conserving the Earth’s Biodiversity Hotspots (HOTSPOTS)

Unwelcome Guests? The Seed Biology of Invasive Species

Vegetation Management for Conservation in Brazil

Wood Anatomy of Leguminosae

Wood Anatomy of Malpighiales

Wood Anatomy of Myrtaceae

World Checklist of Malpighiales

World Classification and Phylogeny of Salicaceae sensu stricto

World Grass Species Databases (GrassBase)

World Myrtaceae Checklist and Bibliography

World Rubiaceae Checklist

Xylem Function and Evolution

Yams of Madagascar