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