Botanic Garden
- Website
- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk
- Description
- The Oxford Botanic Garden is a national reference collection of 7,000 different types of plant, making it the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the World - there is even more biological diversity here than there is in tropical rain forests and other biodiversity hotspots. Many gardeners come here to seek inspiration. In the beds and borders you may find new plants that would be perfect in your garden at home and partly for this reason we strive to label clearly every plant in the Garden. Plants are grown in this Garden to support our teaching programmes, for research scientists in this University and elsewhere and as part of plant conservation projects.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-02-06 18:28
- last episode published
- 2012-01-10 15:39
- publication frequency
- 38.27 days
- Contributors
- Oxford University
- Owner Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 12
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- Education
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Episodes
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| 2012-01-10 | We often hear in the news about GM (Genetic Modification or Manipulation) but what does it actually involve? In this lecture Liam Dolan will explain how scientists go about manipulating the instruction manuals of plants with illustrations from his own ... |
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| 2012-01-09 | To ensure food security for the increasing world population in a environmentally sustainable way, we must double productivity on the same area of land. as well as address the concerns of modern high input agriculture, declining water availability and c... |
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| 2012-01-09 | Plants are able to metabolise a surprisingly diverse range of synthetic chemicals including pesticides and pollutants. These chemical reactions are important in global agriculture, as the ability of crops to metabolise herbicides rapidly is the primary... |
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| 2012-01-09 | Modern medicine uses many compounds which are isolated from plants. For example, vinblastine, which is used to treat many types of cancer, is isolated from the leaves of the Madagascar periwinkle. Sarah O'Connor will talk about her work in understandin... |
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| 2012-01-09 | The spectacular variety of colour and growth form seen in our gardens is the result of the action of thousands of genes operating in pathways and networks. However, the basic principles of genetics are very simple and this lecture will explain how gene... |
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| 2011-01-19 | Part of the Future of Crops Lecture Series held at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. Enhancing root function offers great promise in the development of sustainable crops. This lecture will highlight the critical role played by roots in nutrient uptake and re... |
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| 2011-01-19 |
The OneOak Project:using science and art to revive Britain's wood culture Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. Trees, woodlands and their product, wood, surround our lives. In Britain today, people that access or connect with woodlands do so through a society that cherishes the ... |
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| 2011-01-19 | Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. Many of the World's poorest people depend upon rice for almost their entire calorific intake. Increases in rice yields are trailing behind increases in population growt... |
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| 2010-12-21 | Part of the Healing Power of Plants lecture series given at the Botanic Gardens. Dianna Bowles OBE from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products in York has led pioneering work on the development of new higher yielding varieties of Artemisia annua wh... |
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| 2010-12-21 | Part of the Healing Power of Plants lecture series held at the Botanic Gardens. The talk will describe how unusual nitrogen- containing sugar analogues produced by plants are being discovered by research undertaken in collaboration with Oxford chemists... |
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