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Harvesting the Sun (1991 Video)

Producer

Barrie Whatley

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A review of our knowledge of how plants utilise sunlight, including the research that led to the 1988 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Plants produce oxygen when exposed to light, and produce starch. The green...

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Protoplasmic Streaming (1979 Film, Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The turbulent, circulatory or rotational streaming of cytoplasm and its variations (tramline-, mantle- and fountain-streaming) as well as shuttle-streaming shown in the following: ‘Allium’,...

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Plant Structure (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive multimedia CD-ROM for the teaching of plant structure and anatomy. In three main sections - cells, tissues and organs - it covers material ranging from cell structures through to tissue types...

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Wallace in Wales (1997 Video)

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Some of Charles Darwin’s fame for the discovery of evolutionary theory is these days shared with fellow scientist Alfred Russel Wallace. Traces his life in South Wales and the Welsh borders, where Wallace...

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Basic Techniques of Plant Tissue Culture (1985 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

oUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 26 slides. col.

Introduces the techniques used in plant cell, tissue and organ culture and their possible commercial applications. Discusses the initiation, establishment and maintenance of callus and cell suspension...

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Development of the Ectoparasite ‘Dissodinium Pseudocalani’ (Dinophyceae) (1970 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The peridinian ‘Dissodinium pseudocalani’ feeds holozoically upon the eggs of the copepod ‘Pseudocalanus elongatus’ of which it is an ectoparasite. The parasitic stage is followed by vegetative...

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Five Kingdoms Cd-Rom (1994 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM guide giving an overview of the major phyla of the five biological kingdoms: ‘Monera’ (bacteria), ‘Protoctista’ (algae, protozoans, and other aquatic and parasitic organisms), ‘Fungi’...

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Web of Life (1998 Video)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the social and medicinal significance of plants in north-east Brazil through the framework of organisations operating within the Plantas do Nordeste or PNE, a scientific initiative in collaboration...

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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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Living Plant Cell, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1995 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses various microscopic techniques (bright-field microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, electron microscopy) on onion epidermis to emphasise the dynamic nature of plant...

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