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Our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to exploit, to objects of beauty, to being an essential global resource we have to conserve. Presented by Prof Kath...
Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with the final episodes of her new history of our changing rel...
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with an omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationship wit...
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationshi...
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationshi...
The first of five omnibus editions of Prof Kathy Willis' timely new history of our changing relationship with plants From the birth of moder...
Prof Kathy Willis concludes her major new history series by asking how much plant biodiversity is worth, and examines new research into secu...
Prof. Kathy Willis examines the different kinds of spiritual, physical and intellectual links that we have with the landscape and their dive...
In 2005 a landmark study was published which changed the political landscape for conservation, probably for ever. Rather than viewing biodiv...
Palms provide many basic necessities and are collectively one of the most important plants families after grasses and legumes. In 2007 and e...
The new science of DNA sequencing during the 1990's would not only lead to the mapping of complete human and plant genomes but it was to als...
At a glance, Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse ear cress) looks little more than a tiny flowering weed. But this nondescript plant became a Rosett...
By the end of the 20th century, concerns raised in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit about the fate of wild plants and their ecosystems meant that c...
During the early hours of October 16th 1987, hurricane force winds ripped through southern England recording gusts of 110 mph. In just a few...
In 1947 an ambitious project began to survey and catalogue the biodiversity of plants in East Africa. It was to take 60 years and turned out...
When in 1934 botanist Kenneth Thimann isolated the plant hormone auxin, he put an end to one of the great botanical mysteries - how plants m...
In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant products of biological imp...
Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resistance to disease or to...
By the end of the First World War the mysterious sudden death of elms was a common sight across Belgium and the Netherlands. Dutch researche...
In 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato field outside the Dutch town of Hilversum caught the eye of German botanist Hug...
The Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to German scientist Richard Willstatter in 1915 for his analysis of the green plant pigment chloro...
In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unknown to each other, appeared in the same scientific journal. Each had independently "rediscovere...
The Victorians' pride at the effortless movement of plants around the world during the late 19th century was having an unwelcome side effect...
Orchids are big business. Today over £5m of orchid hybrids are imported as cut flowers into the UK each year. For the Victorians orchids wer...
Natural rubber derived from latex had long been a curiosity. When Nelson Goodyear perfected his method of vulcanisation of rubber and showca...
To the Victorians the Amazonian water lily was more than just a plant. The adventure of finding this exotic piece of the Empire and getting...
By 1850 identifying and classifying plants had become far more important than mere list making. Establishing the global laws of botany - wha...
Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine was to emerge a major new discipline in science - plant pathology. Infectious micro-organisms...
The Victorians realised that preserving the structural features of a plant was essential to classifying it, placing it on a plant family tre...
The 18th-century botanical impresario Sir Joseph Banks was convinced that Britain's destiny was as the major civilising power in the world,...
The 18th-century's age of travel and enlightenment meant that a vast influx of newly discovered plants into Europe was creating a botanical...