Giles Oldroyd. Engineering the nitrogen symbiosis for smallholder farmers in Africa
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Filmed at the Gatsby Summer School, University of Cambridge 2015
Western agricultural systems are reliant on the application of inorganic nitrogen fertilisers to greatly enhance yield. However, production and application of nitrogen fertilisers account for a significant proportion of fossil fuel usage…
Beverley Glover. Flowering plant diversity: development, function and evolution
CSVL Research, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, WebinarsFilmed at the Gatby Summer School, University of York, 2013
http://www.tree.leeds.ac.uk/tree.2.0/view_lecture.php?permalink=MTA2Nw
Abstract: The enormous species diversity of the flowering plants has puzzled evolutionary biologists since Darwin’s day. The rapid radiation of the flowering plants…
Jane Langdale. Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
CSVL Research, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, WebinarsFilmed at the Long Now Foundation, March 2016.
Revolutionary rice
Feeding the world (and saving nature) in this populous century, Jane Langdale began, depends entirely on agricultural efficiency—the ability to turn a given amount of land and sunlight into ever more food. And that depends on three…