General information about the project/initiative
Name of the Project/Initiative: UK National Tree Seed Project
Acronym: UKNTSP
General information about the organisation
Name: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
City: Haywards Heath
Post Code: RH17 6TN
Country: UK
Contact details of the person responsible for the project/initiative:
Name: Clare Trivedi
Phone number: 01444 894121
Website
Description of the project/initiative
Domains covered by the project/initiative:
- Forest genetic resources (FGR)
Number of partners: 10
Scope of the project: National
Initial motivation for starting the project/initiative: To provide multi-provenance seed collections of the UK woody flora as a resource for research into challenges facing woodland conservation – e.g pests and disease, climate change.
Actions which describe the project – Actions are ranked from 1 to 10
| Managing genetic resources (collecting, conserving, maintaining, regenerating, optimising composition, etc.) | 1 |
| Managing information (databasing, interfacing, etc.) | 2 |
| Building capacity (involving GR collection managers) | 4 |
| Scientific research (analysing diversity, finding traits, etc.) | 3 |
| Raising public awareness (aiming at the general public) | 5 |
Budget and funding
Overall budget of the project/initiative (in Euros): 1,000,000
Private: 100%
Expected outcomes and communication
Outcomes
| Increase knowledge | X |
| Improve/conserve genetic resource materials | X |
| Scientific community | X |
| Genetic resources conservation community | X |
Beneficiaries
Other(s):
those undertaking landscape scale planting
Project/initiative to lead to the initiation of further projects/initiatives
– This first phase will lead to a second phase of collecting. Also there will be spin off projects involving use of collections for research and conservation
