Tag: Royal Botanic Kew Gardens
World yet to utilise the nature for its medicinal values
Even as 4,000 or more species of plants and fungi are scientifically described for the first time every year, the world has not yet...
Crops not yet used to the maximum in bio-fuel
Despite the energy sector diversifying from hydrocarbons into bio-energy, wind and solar, as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions and slow climate change,...
Underutilised plants hold key to future food production
Scientists and collaborators have suggested that underutilised and overlooked plants hold the key to future food production around the world as relying on a...
Two in five plants across the world under threat of extinction
Two in five of the world’s plants are at risk of extinction as a result of destruction of nature, according to the Royal Botanic...