Episode 5
Nov 18, 2014 - 56:42
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Hunt for Diversity
Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resistance to disease or tolerance to drought. During the 1920s the Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, havin...
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Hunt for Diversity is an episode from Plants: From Roots to Riches by BBC. Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resistance to disease or tolerance to drought. Durin...
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Published Aug 7, 2014, 14:08 long, audio available.
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