Projects
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Project highlights
Project highlights
Ethiopian Lupins for Food and Feed
The Ethiopian Lupins for Food and Feed project aims to develop sweet (low alkaloid) white lupins for Ethiopia.
Kew’s plant assessment unit
A focal point for extinction risk assessments at Kew.
Mobile Museum: economic botany in circulation
Exploring the mobility of biocultural collections.
Kew's research projects
Kew's research projects
Kew manages hundreds of projects worldwide, focusing on topics as diverse as the effects of climate change on agriculture to the use of Chinese medicinal plants. A selection of key initiatives that Kew is currently working on can be found below. Search to find the project that you are interested in or browse the work that we are doing either globally or by geographic region.
Global
Global
- Adapting agriculture to climate change
- CAPITULA
- Chinese medicinal plants and their materia medica
- Compositae research programme at Kew
- Diversity and evolution of Cortinariaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)
- Evolution and diversification of the palms and their seed traits
- GeoCAT – Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool
- Global Plants Initiative (GPI)
- History and curation of economic botany collections
- Kew’s plant assessment unit
- Large scale digitisation of Herbarium specimens
- Mobile Museum: economic botany in circulation
- NASSTEC – NAtive Seed Science, TEchnology and Conservation, Initial Training Network (ITN)
- PalmHydraulics: linking biodiversity and functioning of tropical forests under climate change
- Kew’s plant assessment unit
- Plant identification: tropical and temperate tools
- Project MGU - the Useful Plants Project
- Symbiont policing and mutualism maintenance
- Systematics, taxonomy and evolution of the nettle family, Urticaceae
- Tropical legume trees under the microscope
Africa
Africa
- African Acanthaceae: diversity and conservation
- African Cyperaceae
- Assessing plant conservation priorities in Angola
- Balancing conservation and livelihoods in the Chimanimani Forest belt, Mozambique
- Building a climate resilient coffee economy for Ethiopia
- Cladogenesis and niche evolution in Madagascan forests
- Ethiopian Lupins for Food and Feed
- Flora Zambesiaca
- GCRF Underutilised Plants of Tropical Africa Hub
- Global biodiversity legume assessments in Africa: West Central Africa as a case study
- Grasses and savannas of Madagascar
- Great Green Wall cross-border pilot project (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger)
- Harnessing agricultural ecosystem biodiversity for bean production and food security
- Madagascan plants threat assessment
- Madagascar yam conservation for livelihoods
- Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation and climate resilience at Yayu Biosphere Reserve (Ethiopia)
- Modelling and genomics resources to enhance exploitation of the sustainable and diverse Ethiopian starch crop Enset and support livelihoods
- Pesticide Plants for Organic Cotton in Mali
- Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs): Cameroon
- TIPAs Guinea-Conakry (2016-2019)
- Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs): Mozambique
- Yams of West and South West Ethiopia
Latin America / Caribbean
Latin America / Caribbean
- Annotated systematic checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia
- Boyacá Seed Bank
- Boyacá’s Forgotten Kingdom
- Boyacá’s Páramo Plants for Life
- Boyacá’s Useful Plants
- Building a partnership of systematic excellence – a checklist of selected families of Boyacá
- Digital Amazon
- Evolution of phenological strategies across South American legumes
- Forest Futures, Bolivia
- Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme
- Neotropikey
- Reflora
- Saving threatened forests of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic
- Science-based conservation of tree species in Mexico
- Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in Bolivia
- Tropical Important Plant Areas in the British Virgin Islands (BVI TIPAs)
- Understanding the páramo grasslands of Boyacá through building knowledge of grasses
Europe and the United Kingdom
Europe and the United Kingdom
- Banking the UK’s seeds
- UK Flora Project
- UK Native Seed Hub
- UK National Tree Seed
- UK Forest Genetic Resources Strategy
- Caucasus programme
- Cryopreservation of temperate recalcitrant seed
- Digitising Kew’s plant pathogen collection
- EcoSeed – the impact of environmental conditions on seed quality, from model species to crop wild relatives
- Evolution of Asteraceae in the European Alps
- Genetic studies of Cypripedium calceolus (the lady’s slipper orchid)
- Genomic resources for healthy ash trees
- Harmful or healthy? Studying how chemicals in nectar and pollen affect bees
- Integrated monography of the genus Saxifraga L.
Asia / Oceania
Asia / Oceania
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