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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBGK)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Self-standing RI
Location
United Kingdom
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
United Kingdom
Scientific Description
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was founded in 1759 and over the past 257 years has been at the centre of global discovery, collection, identification, naming and ordering of all things plant and fungus related. Spread over two sites (Kew Gardens in west London and Wakehurst Place in West Sussex), Kew’s scientific collections contain over 8.5 million items, incorporating living and preserved material, seeds, spores and DNA, and between them cover an extraordinary breadth of plant and fungal diversity.
RI Keywords
Plant and fungal diversity, Collections, Natural capital, Conservation, Seed banking, Biodiversity informatics, Plant health, Spatial analysis
Classifications
RI Category
Intense Light Sources
Bio-informatics Facilities
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Natural History Collections
Agronomy, Forestry, Plant Breeding Centres
Databases
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Research Libraries
Bio-informatics Facilities
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Natural History Collections
Agronomy, Forestry, Plant Breeding Centres
Databases
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Research Libraries
Scientific Domain
Humanities and Arts
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Environment
Services
Access to Botanical and Mycological Collections
With over 8.5 million items, Kew houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world. They represent over 95% of known flowering plant genera and more than 60% of known fungal genera.
Research Support
Access to Plant, Fungus and Seed Data
Equipment
Water Purification System
Ultra-Centrifuge
-80 Freezers
Rotary Evaporator
Growth Room
Incubators
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS/MS)
Liquid Nitrogen Cylinder/Dewars
Autoclaves
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
DNA Sequencer
Plate Reader
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Alpha Screen
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-DAD)
Next Generation Sequencer MiSeq
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Light Microscopes
Laminar Flow hoods and Biological Safety Cabinets
Collaborations
Networks
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
Date of last update: 31/08/2018
