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Treub laboratory will be reopened for world scientists
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World-class laboratory: A bust of Dutch botanist Melchior Treub sits in the corner of a room at the Treub laboratory at the Bogor Botanical Gardens. (JP/Theresia Sufa)
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he Treub laboratory at the Bogor Botanical Gardens will be expanded to become a world-class laboratory. International scientists will be invited to the laboratory, which is located in the oldest plant conservation center in Asia.
The laboratory’s expansion is in line with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences’ (LIPI) plan to propose the inclusion of the Bogor Botanical Gardens on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
“We have received laboratory equipment assistance from Japan,” said LIPI deputy chairperson for biodiversity sciences, Enny Sudarmonowati, recently.
(Read also: Bogor Botanical Gardens proposed as UNESCO world heritage site)
Enny said the laboratory was housed in a historical building. Hundreds of scientists from various countries had worked on research projects on tropical plants in the laboratory and the results of their research had been acknowledged internationally.
In 1884, Dutch botanist Melchior Treub initiated the development of a laboratory for visiting foreign scientists with the Bezoekers laboratory. He initiated various research activities on plant diseases in coffee and sugar cane – two important commodities of the Dutch colonial government’s economy.
The Bezoekers laboratory was renamed the Treub laboratory in 1914. (ebf)
