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Kathy Willis explores the action of plant hormones, the understanding of which transformed global crop production. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis examines the deceptive simplicity of creating Floras, books in which plants are catalogued. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis visits Kew's arboretum to see how the 1987 hurricane led to a new understanding of effective tree care. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis examines how mapping plant genomes sheds new light on controlling plant traits and where they grow. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis visits Kew's Millennium Seedbank to uncover the role of seedbanking in conserving plant diversity. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis explores how DNA fingerprinting uncovered a new way to classify plants and an evolutionary tree of life. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis explores how DNA analysis is providing a new window into the evolution of the tropical rainforest. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis examines new ways to assess the role of plant biodiversity to our livelihoods and well-being. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis examines the importance of green landscapes, parks and gardens for our health. What’s their future role? From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis asks how much plant biodiversity is worth, and examines research into securing the future of crops. From 2014. Show more
Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants. Show more
Prof Kathy Willis, director of Science at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationship with plants during the early 20th century. Show more
Prof Kathy Willis, director of science at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, with the omnibus edition of her history of our changing relationship with plants during the early 20th century. Show more
Prof Kathy Willis, director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with an omnibus edition of her history of our relationship with plants during the early 20th century. Show more
Prof Kathy Willis, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with a final omnibus edition of her history of our relationship with plants. Show more
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Professor Kathy Willis’s history starts with botanist Carl Linnaeus and a revolutionary grammar for plants. From 2014. Show more
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Professor Kathy Willis examines how plants proved a new route to political power and the growth of Britain's Empire. From 2014. Show more
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Professor Kathy Willis examines the vital significance of Kew's 19th-century herbarium collection of pressed plants. From 2014. Show more
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How 1845’s Irish potato famine tragedy sparked the new science discipline of plant pathology. With Kathy Willis. From 2014. Show more
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Kathy Willis examines how Charles Darwin’s confidant Joseph Hooker acquired species to create world flora maps. From 2014. Show more
