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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 health, Plant and fungal diversity, Seed banking, Collections, Spatial analysis, Conservation, Natural capital, Biodiversity informatics
Classifications
RI Category
Natural History Collections
Bio-informatics Facilities
Agronomy, Forestry, Plant Breeding Centres
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Research Libraries
Databases
Intense Light Sources
Bio-informatics Facilities
Agronomy, Forestry, Plant Breeding Centres
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Research Libraries
Databases
Intense Light Sources
Scientific Domain
Humanities and Arts
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental 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.
Access to Plant, Fungus and Seed Data
Research Support
Equipment
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Incubators
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
Water Purification System
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-DAD)
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS/MS)
Rotary Evaporator
Light Microscopes
Ultra-Centrifuge
Next Generation Sequencer MiSeq
Autoclaves
Growth Room
Laminar Flow hoods and Biological Safety Cabinets
Alpha Screen
DNA Sequencer
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Liquid Nitrogen Cylinder/Dewars
Plate Reader
-80 Freezers
Collaborations
Networks
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
Date of last update: 31/08/2018
