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New plant laboratory opens at Cambridge University Botanical Gardens (UK)
27th April 2011

(Reporting by the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-13208521)

The pioneering centre, which cost £82m, will help scientists explore climate change, food supplies and the search for sustainable fuel.

It was built with a grant from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

"We are truly grateful. Plant biology is a science which is critical for our planet," said Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.

The building will also be home to the university's herbarium, a collection of more than one million pressed and dried plants from all over the world, including many collected by Charles Darwin.

See Cambridge University Botanical Gardens entry in BGCI's Garden Search

 

 

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