- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University [1]
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences | Göttingen | Germany [1]
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra [1]
- Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Vladovostok, Russia [1] [2]
- Ботанический сад-институт Дальневосточного отделения Российской академии наук
- Botanical Garden-Institute MarSTU, Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic, Russia [1]
- Ботанический сад-институт МарГТУ, Йошкар-Ола, Мари́й Эл, Россия [1] [2] [3]
- Botanical Garden-Institute | Volga State University of Technology | Russia [1]
- Ботанический сад-институт Поволжского ГТУ | Россия, Марий Эл, г. Йошкар-Ола
- Botanical Garden-Institute USC RAS, Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia [1]
- Ботанический сад-институт Уфимского научного центра Российской академии наук
- Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB) [1]
- Botanical Institute at the Cologne Biocenter, Germany [1] [2]
- Botanical Research Groups University of Basel, Switzerland
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) [1]
- Botanical Survey of India [1]
- Botanický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, v.v.i. | Průhonice | Česko [1] [2] [3]
- Botanischen Institut im Biozentrum Köln
- Botanisches Institut der Universität zu Köln | Deutschland [1] [2]
- Botanische Staatssammlung München, Bavaria, Germany [1] [2] [3]
- Botany Department of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), USA [1] [2] [3]
- Botany Department NMNH - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA [1]
- Ботанический институт им. В.Л. Комарова РАН | Санкт-Петербург, Россия [1] [2]
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) [1] [2]
- California Academy of Sciences | Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, USA
- Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) [1]
- CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh, India [1] [2]
- Département de Botanique et Biologie Végétale, Université de Genève, Suisse [1]
- Department EPSAG (Experimental Phycology and SAG) | Universität Göttingen [1]
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research | University Vienna
- Department of Botany | University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Honolulu, HI | USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology • University of Michigan • USA
- Department for Plant Biochemistry | Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences | Univ. of Goettingen
- Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences | UHM | USA
- Department of Plant Pathology | University of California, Davis, CA | USA [1]
- Department of Plant Sciences | University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | USA
- Department of Systematic Botany | Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences | Univ. of Goettingen
- Department of Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii | USA
- East Malling Research (EMR) [1]
- EECB • University of Hawai’i at Manoa • Honolulu, HI • USA
- Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie
- Experimentelle Phykologie und Sammlung von Algenkulturen der Universität Göttingen (EPSAG) [1]
- Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology • Polish Academy of Sciences [1] [2] [3]
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology [1]
- Frontier Organic Research Farm Botanical Garden [1]
- Henry Foundation for Botanical Research, The (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) [1] [2] [3]
- Institut Botànic de Barcelona | Cataluña | España (Spain) [1]
- Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera | Polska Akademia Nauk | Kraków, Polska [1] [2]
- Institute of Botany University of Cologne | Germany
- Institut für Botanik und Botanischer Garten Universität Salzburg | Österreich (Austria)
- Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
- Instytut Dendrologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk • Kórnik [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Instytut Fizjologii Roślin im. Franciszka Górskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk [1] [2] [3]
- Institut für Spezielle Botanik | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität | Mainz | Deutschland (Germany) [1]
- Institut für Spezielle Botanik | Universität Jena | Deutschland (Germany) [1]
- Institut für Systematische Botanik und Ökologie, Universität Ulm, Deutschland
- Institut für Systematische Botanik, Universität Zürich, Schweiz
- Instytut Ochrony Roślin - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Poznań, Polska [1]
- Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Biodiversity research/ Sytematic Botany
- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability (CAS), USA [1] [2] [3]
- Institute of Botany and Ecology, University of Tartu | Estonia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Institute of Botany of the ASCR | Průhonice, Czech Republic [1] [2] [3]
- Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Sofia [1]
- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing [1]
- Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOB), Beijing [1]
- Institute of Botany | National Academy of Sciences of Armenia | Yerevan [1]
- Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland [1] [2]
- Institute of Botany | University of Cologne | Köln, Germany [1]
- Institute of Botany | University of Hohenheim | Stuttgart, Germany [1] [2]
- Institute of Dendrology • Polish Academy of Sciences • Kórnik [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Institute of Ecology | Ilia State University | Tbilisi, Georgia [1] [2] [3] [4]
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences | Department of Botany | Estonia [1] [2] [3] [4]
- Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR (IEB) [1] [2] [3]
- Institute of General Botany | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) | Germany [1] [2]
- Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Germany [1]
- Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB), Philippines [1] [2] [3]
- Institute of Plant Breeding of the Crop Science Cluster (CSC)
- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing
- Institute of Plant Protection (IPP), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
- Institute of Plant Protection - National Research Institute, Poznan, Poland [1]
- Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) | University of Bern, Switzerland [1] [2] [3]
- Institute of Pomology (IOP), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) [1]
- Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (ITEC)
- Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) • Kabale • Uganda [1] [2]
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing
- Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, USA [1] [2]
- Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, University of Ulm, Germany [1]
- Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (IBB) [1] [2]
- Институт экспериментальной ботаники им. В. Ф. Купревича НАН Беларуси | Минск
- International Moss Stock Center (IMSC) Freiburg [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Tehrān [1] [2] [3] [4]
- Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute [1] [2]
- Jiangsu Institute of Botany, Nanjing, China [1]
- Kazakh Research Institute of Fruit Growing and Viticulture, Almaty, Kazakstan [1] [2]
- Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences [1] [2] [3]
- Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, Yunnan, China [1]
- Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIB/CAS) [1] [2] [3]
- Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum • University of Michigan • USA
- Middle Tennessee State University | Plant and Soil Science | Murfreesboro, TN | USA [1]
- M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv [1] [2]
- N.A. Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (PABGI), Kirovsk | Russia
- National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia (NBRI) [1] [2] [3]
- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) [1] [2] [3]
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) [1]
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology | Department Terrestrial Ecology | Wageningen
- NIH Botanical Research Centers Program [1] [2] [3]
- Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd (The Nippon Shinyaku Institute for Botanical Research) [1] [2]
- N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry [1] [2] [3]
- Ökoloogia ja Maateaduste Instituut, Botaanika osakond | Tartu Ülikool | Estonia [1] [2] [3]
- Plant Cell Biology (Lipka) | Göttingen | Germany [1]
- Plant Molecular Biology and Physiology | Göttingen | Germany [1]
- Plant Pathology Research Institute (PPathRI), Giza, Egypt [1] [2]
- Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (PABGI), Kirovsk | Russia
- Полярно-альпийский ботанический сад-институт им. Н. А. Аврорина КНЦ РАН
- Research Group Plant Ecology (Pflanzenökologie) University of Basel [1]
- Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture, Skierniewice, Poland
- Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge [1]
- SDU Rose Research Center [1] [2]
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Botany Department, USA [1]
- South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCBG, CAS)
- South China Institute of Botany, CAS, Guangzhou
- Stanford University | Department of Biology | Ecology, Evolution, Conservation | USA
- Tartu University, Inst. Of Botany and Ecology | Estonia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University [1]
- The Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB) [1]
- The Botanical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- The Botanical Research Center (BRC) at Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology • Polish Academy of Sciences [1] [2]
- The Henry Foundation for Botanical Research, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania [1] [2] [3]
- The Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- The Institute for Systematic Botany (ISB), University of South Florida, Tampa, USA [1]
- The International Moss Stock Center (IMSC) Freiburg [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) [1] [2] [3]
- The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) [2]
- The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) [1]
- The Tanaduk Botanical Research Institute [1]
- UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research [1] [2] [3]
- UC Davis | Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE) | Davis, CA | USA [1]
- UC Davis | Department of Plant Biology | Davis, CA | USA [1] [2]
- UC Davis | Department of Plant Sciences | Davis, CA | USA [1]
- UC Davis | Department of Plant Pathology | Davis, CA | USA [1]
- Universität Potsdam Biodiversitätsforschung/ Spezielle Botanik
- Universität zu Köln Botanisches Institut, Deutschland
- Universität Zürich | Institut für Systematische Botanik | Schweiz [1] [2]
- University of Basel Botanical Research Groups, Switzerland
- University of Basel • Institute of Botany • Sect. Plant Ecology [1]
- University of Bern | Institute of Ecology and Evolution | Switzerland
- University of Bern | Institute of Plant Sciences | Switzerland [1] [2] [3]
- Univ. of California, Davis • Department of Plant Biology • USA [1] [2]
- University of Cologne - Institute of Botany, Germany
- University of Geneva | Department of Botany and Plant Biology, Switzerland
- University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Botany Department | Honolulu, HI | USA
- University of Hawai‘i at Manoa | Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology [1]
- University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences | USA
- University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences | USA
- University of Hohenheim | Institute of Botany | Stuttgart, Germany [1] [2]
- University of Kentucky Research and Education Center
- University of Kentucky Research and Education Center Botanical Garden [1]
- University of Potsdam Departement of Biodiversity Research/ Systematic Botany
- University of Tartu, Institute of Botany and Ecology | Estonia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- University of Tennessee | Department of Plant Sciences | Knoxville, TN | USA
- University of Zurich | Institute of Plant Biology | Switzerland
- University of Zurich | Institute of Systematic Botany | Switzerland
- Ústav experimentální botaniky Akademie věd České republiky (ÚEB) [1] [2]
- V.F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the NAS of Belarus | Minsk
- Vilnius University Botanical Garden (VUBG), Lithuania [1]
- W.Szafer Istitute of Botany PAS | Kraków, Poland [1]
- Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences [1]
- Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany PAS, Kraków, Poland [1]
- Yamashina Botanical Research Institute [1] [2] [3]
- Yamashina Instituto de Investigación Botánica [1] [2]
- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute (ZFRI), Henan Province, P.R. China [1]
Friday, February 21, 2014
Botanical Research Institutes
Monday, February 10, 2014
National Botanical Research Institute: Conserving the diversity of Namibia's plant life - Travel News Namibia
National Botanical Research Institute: Conserving the diversity of Namibia’s plant life
July 6th, 2012
By Ginger Mauney
In the field there is often a fine line between what can kill you and what can cure you. It can be found in the shape of a leaf, in the time of year when a plant becomes too toxic for grazing or when the pith of a plant can provide moisture but you would wilt very quickly if you ate the leaves. Understanding the diversity of Namibia’s plant life, and promoting the conservation and sustainable use of this valuable resource, are the aims of the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), a division of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Over the past fifteen years significant changes have been made at the NBRI to diversify functions internally and to reach out to people in various regions and fields to achieve its aims. Each section of the NBRI, including the vegetation ecology unit, gene bank, plant-product development, botanical library, Namibian Tree Atlas, botanical garden and a new economic development section, has a common mission to research, conserve and create awareness of indigenous plants.
From inventory to taxonomy, from protected areas to plant use, the work of the NBRI encompasses everything within the world of Namibian plants. The Institute is furthermore often responsible for Namibia’s involvement in international treaties regarding plants. For example, the NBRI is currently involved in identifying important plant areas in the country as one of sixteen goals laid out in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
One such area is the southern Namib. Here the NBRI launched a project to contribute to the restoration of disturbed areas after land clearing and mining. Staff from the NBRI and environmental consultants removed plants that were threatened by mining operations and brought them to Windhoek to be propagated. The plants were subsequently transplanted to areas without disturbance. First findings were very encouraging and now the NBRI is considering expanding this project to other areas where plants may be moved rather than destroyed.
Last year, after seven years of negotiating, Namibia became a signatory to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources. This is a global initiative to conserve and use gene plasma for future economic development.
Prior to the signing of the treaty, the NBRI was already active in collecting and preserving gene plasma. Currently 3 000 gene-plasma samples from Namibian cultivated and wild plant species with economic potential are stored within the NBRI’s gene bank.
Utilisation of the gene bank, particularly within the crop improvement sector, is important to the NBRI and potentially vital to the country. Its positive effects can be seen in the mahangu fields of northern Namibia. From the gene bank, mahangu (pearl millet) accessions have been used to breed a long-bristled variety for use in areas where loss of grain to birds is a serious problem.
On collecting trips, the germ plasma of two species of wild relatives of rice growing in the Kavango River and near Ruacana were collected. Rice is one of three crops that provides close to 60% of the world’s food, so providing these samples for international research could be important to the world’s food supply and potentially contribute to Namibia’s economy.
The NBRI has a newly created Plant Pro-duct Development Section that works towards the promotion of new products from our indigenous plant species, ensuring that development takes place in a responsible and sustainable manner. The NBRI is closely involved in the development of the use of Hoodia, a succulent patented as an appetite suppressant. The Institute will soon host the EU-funded Succulent Cultivation Project, addressing the potential income-generating opportunities of succulents such as Hoodia for communities especially in southern Namibia.
Devil’s claw is another indigenous plant that has proven medicinal properties for treating rheumatism and arthritic type ailments, yet its future could be threatened by unsustainable harvesting, for instance when the entire tuber is pulled out of the ground, leaving nothing to regenerate. The NBRI conducted devil’s claw germination trials to find methods of germination that don’t require specialised equipment or treatments in the field. The results of these trials were encouraging and most have been adopted by CRIAA (Centre for Research Information Action in Africa) in its work with local people and devil’s claw in the Omaheke Region.
Namibia also recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa to develop a bilateral bio-prospecting programme that will screen Namibian plant species for certain medicinal properties. They are confident that this will unlock new possibilities for the commercial exploitation of Namibia’s plants.
If numbers are anything to go by, there is a lot of potential. The NBRI’s National Herbarium recently completed the computerisation of almost 85 000 specimens. Information from this section is often provided to veterinary services and farmers, helping them to identify potentially poisonous plant species in the case of stock losses due to suspected poisonings. It is also used to compile the Red Data list that identifies species at risk of becoming extinct. This list is used by conservationists, researchers and policy makers to set priorities, develop management and recovery plans and implement habitat-restoration efforts.
The ecology section at the NBRI is actively involved in the Agro-Ecological Zoning Project that examines soils and vegetation. Its work has implications for the effective use of land and land management planning in Namibia.
The Tree Atlas Project is one NBRI initiative that is nearing completion. After five years, 219 registered atlassers contributed more than 91 600 observations. This information was compiled in a book mapping the present distribution and abundance of large woody tree species in Namibia.
From its base in Windhoek, the NBRI runs the adjacent National Botanic Garden of Namibia, providing a study area for the flora of Namibia and an outdoor environmental education facility. Proclaimed in 1996, the garden is currently open during government office hours only, but there is a great deal of interest in extending the hours. The Botanical Society opens the garden the first Saturday of every month to present guided tours, and groups such as the Bird Club link walks through the garden with bird watching.
The Desert House, a new addition to the Botanic Gardens that houses examples of succulents, grasses and other plant species native to Namibia’s deserts, will open later this year.
Dr Gillian Maggs-Kolling, head of the NBRI, has shepherded the Institute through the changes and accomplishments of the last fifteen years. She sees encouraging young people to become involved in botany as an important future objective of the NBRI. “We are currently involved in careers week and science week at schools. We also have many school groups coming through the Botanic Garden. Nevertheless, we need children to take a far greater interest in the plants around them. They need to understand that there can be a close relationship between a useful plant and one that is toxic. We want them to know and appreciate botany as part of their lives.”
As work done at the National Botanical Research Institute shows, the conservation, preservation and use of plants is an integral, interesting and potentially lifesaving part of life.
This article appeared in the 2005/6 edition of Conservation and the Environment in Namibia.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Frontier Co-op Organic Farmer Training in Sri Lanka
Come with Frontier Co-op sourcing expert, Kai Stark, to Sri Lanka to visit an organic farming training center founded through the Well Earth sourcing program
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