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Applications open for new Trustee
25 Apr 2013
Applications are now open for a position on the Kew Board of Trustees.
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Food for when all else fails - collect from the wild or cultivate?
by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog11 Feb 2013
A successful yam cultivation project in Madagascar cannot keep up with demand for cultivated yams.
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Launching the UKOTs Online Herbarium
by: Sara Barrios, UK Overseas Territories team blog22 May 2012
We are bringing the unique and amazing plants that grow in the UKOTs, including those from the Caribbean, a little closer to you in celebration of International Day of Biological Diversity. Just a shame we can't bring the Caribbean weather too!
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Kill or cure? The perils of nineteenth century medicine
by: Helen Hartley, Library, Art and Archives blog08 Jul 2011
The death of the botanist Henry Trimen in 1896 was said to have 'baffled' his physicians, but evidence uncovered in Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive suggests his doctors may have killed him – accidentally of course!
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Kew's 'Difficult' Seeds Project
17 Dec 2010
We have just launched brand new webpages for Kew's ‘Difficult’ Seeds Project, which supports crop gene banks and farmers in the conservation of plants used for food and agriculture in Africa. The webpages contain information about the project and 160 profile pages for species that have been identified as being difficult to handle, store or use.
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Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150 year-old pressed plants.
22 Sep 2010
Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful – and much needed – new source of data for studying climate change, according to research published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology.
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Resilience vs Risk - how nature recovers after disturbance
by: Denise Deluca, Business Inspired by Nature blog21 Sep 2010
Unlike the business world, nature has no ability to predict future events, but instead uses 'resilience' as its strategy for recovery after disturbance. Inherent within this are creativity and innovation which bring wider benefits. In these transformational times of volatile change, businesses can improve their ability to thrive (not just survive) by focusing on their resilience.
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Discover the new Library, Art & Archives Reading Room
by: David Iggulden, Library, Art and Archives blog17 Aug 2010
Read about the new Library, Art & Archives Reading Room and how it has transformed services for staff and visitors.
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Establishing a common classification with APG III
05 Mar 2010
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) is an international group of botanists that aims to establish a common view on the classification of flowering plants, based mainly upon evidence gained from analyses of plant DNA sequences. The first APG classification was published in a ground-breaking paper in 1998. Since then the classification has been refined through two further updates.
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Kew’s GIS Unit releases interactive global map of plant family and genera data
03 Mar 2010
The new map uses the latest in mapping technology to reveal more about the diversity of the world's plant life.
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