Plants and preservation

Future Tense

• Episode: Plants and preservation
• Website: Future Tense
• Feed URL: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/feed/2883726/podcast.xml
• Duration: 00:28:52
• Published: 2017-01-15 00:30

Seed banks around the world aim to preserve the genetic basis of plant life in order to help humans adapt to future global climate change. We talk with several people involved in such endeavours, and we also meet American David Milarch who gives us a lesson in how to clone a giant Californian Redwood.