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9am today Radio 4

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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Jim Alkalili will be talking about plant science ... in particular Vernalisation and John Innes composts. 
Radio 4 at 9 this morning. 

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Thanks Dove - very interesting.
    The wonders (and complexity) of evolution never cease to amaze.
    And quite a worry for the future with climate change

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    I learned a new word today. Epigenetic. I missed the first ten minutes, but it was very interesting.
    SW Scotland
  • GardenGrower11GardenGrower11 Posts: 312
    Jim Al-Khalili is a Physicist, but is the host of the programme.

    Professor Caroline Dean of the John Innes Centre in Norwich will be the one actually talking about the Plant Science :)

    Anyone interested who missed it can find details here, and catch up with it on the iPlayer.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2jdxj

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2018
    It was fascinating wasn't it.  :)  The JI Centre is just up the road from here ... a late dear friend was also a professor there.  

    Despite the trailer flagging it up there wasn't a lot about the compost was there ... but it's not what they do there.  

    And yes, mea culpa ... it was Prof. Dean being interviewed ... that info wasn't in the brief trailer I heard and I posted it quickly from my phone to give you a chance to listen. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Purplerain said:
    I learned a new word today. Epigenetic. I missed the first ten minutes, but it was very interesting.
    There’s not much hard science behind it yet - take everything to do with it with a pinch of salt.
  • GardenGrower11GardenGrower11 Posts: 312
    Tin pot said:
    Purplerain said:
    I learned a new word today. Epigenetic. I missed the first ten minutes, but it was very interesting.
    There’s not much hard science behind it yet - take everything to do with it with a pinch of salt.
    Why do you say that? Bad reporting in the media is one thing, but actual Epigenetic science is on solid foundations. And it's a growing area of interest in Genetics, including human.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Never heard of epigenetics so googled it.  Interesting.  Now to find time to listen to teh broadcast and do more reading.......
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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