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Plants: From Roots to Riches Episodes

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    The Great Providers

    Kathy Willis examines how we are building future resilience into our modern crops.

  3. Green and Pleasant Lands

    Kathy Willis examines the importance of green landscapes, parks and gardens.

  4. Capture and Drawdown

    Kathy Willis examines new insights into plants as regulators of our planet.

  5. Dynamic Rainforest

    How DNA analysis is providing a new window into the evolution of the tropical rainforest.

  6. A Blooming Tree of Life

    Kathy Willis explores DNA fingerprinting and a new tree of life for plants.

  7. A Useful Weed

    Kathy Willis explores the legacy behind the mapping of the first plant genome.

  8. Capsules of Life

    Kathy Willis uncovers the role seedbanking plays in conserving worldwide plant diversity.

  9. An Ill Wind

    Kathy Willis explores the arboreal benefits that emerged from the great storm of 1987.

  10. Unlocking Biodiversity

    Kathy Willis describes the tools that are proving essential to map the world's flora.

  11. Signals of Growth

    Uncovering the elusive ways plants move and respond to their surroundings.

  12. Botanical Medicine

    Kathy Willis on how new opportunities opened up for finding medicines from plants.

  13. Hunt for Diversity

    Kathy Willis explores Nikolai Vavilov's pioneering search for unused varieties of crops.

  14. Battling Bark and Beetle

    Kathy Willis examines the origin and impact of Dutch elm disease across Europe.

  15. Multiple Genes

    Kathy Willis examines the mystery of a plant's ability to exist in multiple forms.

  16. Towards the Light

    Kathy Willis explores the harnessing of plants' ability to photosynthesise their own food.

  17. Patterns from Crossed Peas

    Kathy Willis on how Mendel's famous pea experiments helped to revolutionise horticulture.

  18. Plant Invaders

    Kathy Willis on the side effects of effortlessly moving plants and seeds around the world.

  19. Orchidmania

    Kathy Willis examines Charles Darwin's use of orchids as a scientific tool.

  20. Tapping into Rubber

    Kathy Willis explores the smuggling of rubber seeds from South America.

  21. Taming the Exotic

    Kathy Willis examines the Victorian race to flower the Amazonian water lily.

  22. Lumping and Splitting

    How naturalist Joseph Hooker globally acquired species to build up the first maps of flora

  23. Blight on the Landscape

    Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine in 1845, a new discipline in science emerged

  24. Pressed Plants and Possibilities

    How Kew's pressed plants collection established insights into plant relationships.

  25. Plants to Shape Society

    How plants proved a new route to political power and the growth of Britain's Empire.

  26. A Rose by Any Other Name

    Carl Linnaeus and a revolutionary grammar for plants.