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The database uses the same taxonomical source as Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, which is the International Plant Names Index, [3] and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). [5] The database contains information of the world's flora that was gathered in the past 250 years of botanical research.
GrassBase (or GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a web-based database of grasses, continually maintained and updated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [1] [2]As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. [2]
John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) was a British botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Brenan was born on 19 June 1917 in Chislehurst and died on 26 September 1985 at Kew. [1] [2] A funeral requiem was held on 3 October 1985 at St. Anne's Church, Kew with a memorial service on the 23rd; he is buried at St ...
The database was created by Prof. Michael D. Bennett and Dr. Ilia J. Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database was originally launched as the "Angiosperm DNA C-values Database" in April 1997, essentially as an online version of collected data lists that had been published by Prof. Bennett and colleagues since the 1970s.
The post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1841. [1] When the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew came into state ownership in 1841 Sir Willian Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was appointed its first Director. [1] Over the period 1841 to 1856 Hooker established four curatorial posts at Kew, namely:
The name is a three-letter acronym for DataBase Manager, and can also refer to the family of database engines with APIs and features derived from the original dbm. The dbm library stores arbitrary data by use of a single key (a primary key ) in fixed-size buckets and uses hashing techniques to enable fast retrieval of the data by key.
The Chargers went 11-6 this season, Harbaugh's first back in the league after he led Michigan to a national championship the year before, and reached the playoffs for the second time in the past ...
Oracle Warehouse Builder was built from the ground up in Oracle, it was first released in January 2000 (release 2.0.4). The 3i release significantly enhanced the ETL mapping designer, then 9i in 2003 introduced the mapping debugger, process flow editing, integrated match/merging and name/address cleansing, multi-table insert, scripting, RAC certification to name a few.