Collecting and banking our living collections at Kew - controlled pollination

Noelia Alvarez and Michelle Sanchez, Botanical Horticulturists, RBG Kew Tropical Nursery Noelia qualified as an Agronomist Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1997, a 6 year full time degree in the speciality of phytotechnology, and is also a qualified teacher. Noelia started working at RBG Kew in 1998, firstly in the Arboretum as a botanical horticulturist and later as propagator horticulturist in the Temperate & Arboretum nursery. The nursery specialises in propagation and cultivation of woody plant species from sub-alpine to tropical rain forest. In 2003 Noelia became Team Leader of the Temperate & Arboretum nursery leading a small team of staff, students and volunteers and joined a new project in partnership with the Millennium Seed Bank, collecting seeds from our Living Collections at Kew In 2006. Michelle gained a PhD in Biology at Birkbeck University of London, UK (2012) and BSc in botany at UFRGS, Brazil (1998) and has been a botanical horticulturist at Kew since 2002, gaining the three-year Certificate in practical training in botanical horticulture and the RHS General Certificate in Horticulture in 2004. Michele has been a member of staff at the Tropical Nursery at Kew since 2005 and team member of the Kew/MSB/Wakehurst project ‘Seed collection from the living collections’ since 2009. Experienced in cultivation and propagation of tropical and temperate plants, curation of living collections, controlled pollination and seed collection, horticultural training and database.
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