{"id":32907,"date":"2024-03-05T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72fc788a-7a28-46c5-b238-d1bffd9779db"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:34:55","slug":"kew-scientists-use-ai-to-predict-extinction-risk-for-all-the-worlds-plants","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/kew-scientists-use-ai-to-predict-extinction-risk-for-all-the-worlds-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Kew scientists use AI to predict extinction risk for all the world’s plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have used AI to predict the extinction risk for every known flowering plant on earth. <\/p>

By Molly Blair\n <\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 05 March 2024 at 16:09 PM<\/p>

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For the first time, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the extinction risk for every known flowering plant. <\/p>

In earlier iterations of this research, scientists had predicted that 45 per cent of all flowering plants were threatened with extinction. Now, this data is publicly available with a full set of predictions for individual species. <\/p>

This allows everyone, from garden designers choosing plants for RHS Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> to beginners buying their first houseplant<\/a>, to look up a species online and immediately see whether it is threatened with extinction in the wild and the threat level. <\/p>

To find out a plant’s risk of extinction status, people can head to Kew’s Plants of the World<\/em><\/a> website and type in a species. Once on the page, clicking through to General Information and opening up the Angiosperm Extinction Risk Prediction box will bring up the newly available information. <\/p>

\u00a9 Ines Stuart Davidson RBG Kew<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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