Improved ash reference genome

Improved ash reference genome

The Centre for Forest Protection team at Kew has just released and improved version of the reference genome for European Ash Fraxinus excelsior. To find out more, take a look at the blog by researcher Dr Daniel Wood.
Birch project teams meet up in Scotland

Birch project teams meet up in Scotland

Some of our researchers from Kew Science were up in Scotland this week visiting the other half of their project team. They met up with the Forest Research scientist at FR’s Northern Research Station just outside Edinburgh for project meetings. They followed this...
Intern diary – Nicola

Intern diary – Nicola

Nicola was one of our first cohort of interns, working at Forest Research in England on a three month project from January to March. Nicola’s project involved a lot of fieldwork and she made us a video diary of some of it, you can see it here: Nicola’s...
Intern diary – Alice P

Intern diary – Alice P

Alice was one of our first cohort of interns, working at Forest Research in Scotland on a three month project from January to March. She worked on a ‘horizon scanning’ project, looking at threats to trees from pests and diseases. She learnt lots of new...