Botany: A Blooming History

Season 1 • Episode 3: Hidden World • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 3: Hidden World

June 21, 2011 • 59 min

For 10,000 years or more, humans created new plant varieties for food by trial and error and a touch of serendipity. Then 150 years ago, a new era began. Pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a new branch of science - plant genetics.

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