16.5 – Fuels of the Future

Base Pairs by Base Pairs – a Cold Spring Harbor Lab podcast

Aug 15, 201800:17:46Science & Medicine

Biofuels are the wave of the future, and a small plant called duckweed could be a significant part of that. Hear more from Professor Rob Martienssen about how genetic modification and advances in genome mapping technolog...

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