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Botany: A Blooming History

Episode 3: Hidden World

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Timothy Walker looks at how pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a new branch of science - plant genetics. Show more

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