Research

Activities and Disciplines

Activities, including:

• Biological interactions

• Economic botany

• GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

• Horticultural taxonomy

• Plant DNA banking

• Seed conservation

• Services as the UK CITES Scientific Authority for Plants

Disciplines, including:

• Plant and fungi taxonomy and systematics

  • Morphological systematics

  • Molecular systematics

  • Cytogenetics

  • Micromorphology (plant anatomy and palynology)

  • Nomenclature

• Micropropagation

• Botanical horticulture

• Surveys and inventories

• Comparative biology

• Mycology

Over the next few months we will be adding further information about our science and horticulture.