Kathy Willis considers our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to
Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with the final episode
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with an omnibus edition of her
Prof Kathy Willis, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of
The first of five omnibus editions of Prof Kathy Willis' timely new history of our changing relation
Prof Kathy Willis concludes her major new history series by asking how much plant biodiversity is wo
Prof. Kathy Willis examines the different kinds of spiritual, physical and intellectual links that w
In 2005 a landmark study was published which changed the political landscape for conservation, proba
Palms provide many basic necessities and are collectively one of the most important plants families
The new science of DNA sequencing during the 1990's would not only lead to the mapping of complete h
At a glance, Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse ear cress) looks little more than a tiny flowering weed. Bu
By the end of the 20th century, concerns raised in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit about the fate of wild
During the early hours of October 16th 1987, hurricane force winds ripped through southern England r
In 1947 an ambitious project began to survey and catalogue the biodiversity of plants in East Africa
When in 1934 botanist Kenneth Thimann isolated the plant hormone auxin, he put an end to one of the
In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for Chemistry "in recognition of his investigat
Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial tr
By the end of the First World War the mysterious sudden death of elms was a common sight across Belg
In 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato field outside the Dutch town of Hilvers
The Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to German scientist Richard Willstatter in 1915 for his an
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