Proceedings of a conservation genetics workshop held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 27 November 2001
(2001)
English Nature
The aim of the meeting was to examine the practical outputs of benfit to the conservation of plants. This is a report of the meeting.

Summary

 
In the summer of 2000, members of the country agency staff who concentrate on botanical issues agreed that it would be useful to hold a genetics and conservation workshop. Initially when genetic techniques were being developed there was scepticism about their relevance to conservation issues. Now that useful results are appearing, it was felt it would be timely to hold a workshop and explore some key issues.
 
The conservation staff wanted to find out:
  • a basic understanding of the issues raised by genetics research;
  • the techniques and their limitations;
  • the right questions to be asking.
 
The genetics researchers wanted to find out:
  • what it was the conservationists wanted to know;
  • how their work might be of relevance to conservationists;
  • how to tease out issues affecting conservation in their reports having done the work in the lab.
 
The workshop was designed to cover these issues in three sessions and the main
recommendations are summarised within the main body of the document
 
 
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Please cite as: English Nature, (2001), Proceedings of a conservation genetics workshop held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 27 November 2001