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Photosynthesis

Biology: The Whole Story
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Plants - Chapter 9

Plants are awesome, with photosynthesis being the most disruptive invention ever! Join Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford to understand why
Back Garden Biology
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Why is the world green?

Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly?
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Plants, Photosynthesis, and Solar Energy

The planet is in trouble; fossil fuels are being depleted and are contributing to global warming. Plants, however, have been directly harnessing solar energy for as long as they have existed. A flash talk from Tomas Leijtens.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Quantum Measurement and Control: How to Roll a Six Everytime

In this flash talk Wojciech Kozlowski discusses the bizarre properties of measurement and how we can harness its probabilistic nature to produce results.
Chemistry for the Future: Solar Fuels

Photosynthesis in Nature

Dr Alison Foster, a former chemist and Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden explains the principals of natural photosynthesis that the Armstrong Group is trying to mimic in the lab.
Chemistry for the Future: Solar Fuels

Enzymes as Fuel Producers

Growing energy demand worldwide is a crucial challenge for chemists. Suzannah Hexter, Armstrong Group, shows how, with the help of enzymes, the principles of photosynthesis may be artificially exploited and improved to provide a clean energy resource.
Chemistry for the Future: Solar Fuels

Introduction to Solar Fuels

In an 'Oxford tutorial' style podcast, Professor Fraser Armstrong introduces the concept of artificial photosynthesis: coupling a light harvesting material with a fuel producer in order to generate storable energy from sunlight.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

18. Why are plants green?

Why chlorophyll and hence plants, looks green.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

11. The machine inside plants

The photosynthetic machinery inside plants is explained.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

05. Energy from the sun

How plants use energy from the sun to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
Botanic Garden Audio trail

09. The hornbeam

How photosynthesis explains why this tree has grown so large.

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