Ottoline Leyser. Thinking like a vegetable: How plants decide what to do
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Filmed at Gatsby Summer School 2015
Professor Ottoline Leyser, Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, speaking at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School 2015.
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