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  1. Seeds of Progress, The (1979 Film)

    Director
    Tony Porter
    Producer
    Gordon Cradock
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The history of plant breeding from the original goat grass and the first bread wheat (Emma). Explains the necessity for royalties for plant breeding.

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  2. New Plants from Old (1978 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 28 min.; 16 slides. col.

    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...

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  3. Genetics and Plant Breeding (1968 Video)

    Director
    David Morphet
    Producer
    Peter Bradford
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min.

    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...

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  4. Mendel’s Principles of Heredity (2000 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    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;...

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  5. Lifelines (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  6. Aphid-Trapping Potato Plants: A Scientific Project of Dr R W Gibson (1979 Video)

    Director
    Chris C Doncaster
    Producer
    Chris C Doncaster
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - BUFVC), Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    '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...

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  7. Last Plant Standing (1998)

    Director
    J Edward Milner
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 200 minutes), £17.00

    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...

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  8. Heredity (1978 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 28 min.; 15 slides. col.

    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...

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  9. Biotechnology: Whose Science? Whose Ethics? (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Considers the public concerns surrounding the agricultural and food uses of genetically modified organisms. Looks at a risk-assessment procedure in which each new genetically modified crop has to be vetted...

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  10. Pick of the Crop (13 Parts) (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54, 48, 55, 55, 55, 52, 58, 56, 56, 58, 57, 55, 58 min., £25.00 +VAT; series £200.00 +VAT

    Documentaries and studio discussions on European agriculture addressing the crucial debate about the future of farming practice and agricultural science in Europe. The series examines the purposes,...

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