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Illustrates the basic techniques of plant tissue culture, its potential as a means of obtaining a variety of useful secondary plant metabolites and the way in which the technology has revolutionised plant...
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...
Discusses the plant succession that takes place on sand dunes. The sand dunes at Braunton Burrows in North Devon provide the study example.
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...
Highlights the importance of plants to the survival of animals, including man and demonstrates why it is necessary to protect plant species. It covers a wide range of plants throughout the world and...
Provides examples of crop pests that are representative of the main animal groups. 30 slides are devoted to ‘Insecta’. The remaining slides cover ‘Mollusca’, ‘Mammalia’, ‘Aves’,...
Describes common weed species of disturbed soil areas. There are 17 slides from arable land and horticultural plots, and 7 from wayside areas or wasteland. Most of the slides show a close-up shot of a single...
Examines in details the adaptations found in different plants for the carbon-fixing step of photosynthesis and discusses the possibilities of breeding the ingenious devices of some tropical plants into our...
Dr. David Bellamy (plant ecologist) and Dr. Alan Pearson (plant physiologist) discuss altitudinal zonation in the Dolomites with a detailed discussion of the plant communities found in the region of Cortina....
'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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