BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
The history of plant breeding from the original goat grass and the first bread wheat (Emma). Explains the necessity for royalties for plant breeding.
Professor A Gemmell and Dr Land discuss ways in which man can manipulate plants. Topics covered include the benefits of cross-breeding, crossing different species, grafting, budding, the use of growth...
An illustration of the technique of micropropagation as carried out in the laboratories of the Plant Sciences Department of the University of Leeds.
Shows how Mendel first elucidated the mathematical laws of inheritance. It explains how the passage of dominant and recessive characteristics from one generation to another depends on discreet particles of...
A presentation centred on the work of Gregor Johann Mendel. Includes biographical material; Mendel’s pure-breeding pea plant; self-fertilising pea plants; the seven traits of Mendel’s pea plants;...
At the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, traditional methods are being used to produce new winter wheats. The stages in this time-consuming process, from the crossing of likely parental types and the...
Considers some of the key contributors to the development of our understanding of inheritance, focusing on the work of Darwin and his theory of natural selection, Mendel’s breeding experiments and on...
'Solanum berthaultii’, an insect-resistant wild potato from Bolivia, has abundant sticky-tipped hairs on the foliage to which small insects and mites get stuck. In contrast, the foliage of cultivated...
Survival on a finite planet is based on food security: We are dependent on plants as the basis of all our food. The informed conservation of plant genetic resources is therefore a most vital task which...
Side 1: Mendel and his experiments. Side 2: Chromosome basis of genetics. Provides a background to Mendelism, outlining the work on plant breeding up to the middle of the 19th century, and discusses the...
Related searches have been automatically generated using the OpenCalais semantic analysis service.