Using Science to Enhance Root Function in Crops

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Part of the Future of Crops Lecture Series held at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Enhancing root function offers great promise in the development of sustainable crops. This lecture will highlight the critical role played by roots in nutrient uptake and review the most recent scientific breakthroughs in this area. The future application of technologies based on these discoveries will be central to enhancing crop productivity in the forthcoming agricultural revolution.

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Department: Botanic Garden

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 01:06:04

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The OneOak Project:using science and art to revive Britain's wood culture

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Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Trees, woodlands and their product, wood, surround our lives. In Britain today, people that access or connect with woodlands do so through a society that cherishes the beauty of the treescape and the wildlife it supports. A new dawn is breaking for forestry. Can we manage forests for carbon, grow fibre for wood heat and energy, and adapt to climate change, while continuing to meet existing objectives from UK forests? The forestry sector needs to engage with society. The Sylva Foundation's OneOak project aims to do this through science and art, focussing on the full life story of one oak tree.

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Department: Botanic Garden

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 00:39:41

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Rice as a crop - a 100 year perspective from 1950 to 2050

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Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

Many of the World's poorest people depend upon rice for almost their entire calorific intake. Increases in rice yields are trailing behind increases in population growth and at this rate, by 2050, there will not be enough rice to go around. In this lecture, Jane will discuss the current situation, the predicted situation and the approaches being taken to prevent disaster.

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Department: Botanic Garden

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 00:45:14

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Oxford at Said: Migration, Life on the Move

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An exploration of global migration and development and the economics of migrant labour.

The migration process is driven by social, economic, political and other forces and evolves in complex interaction with political decision making, networks, brokers and infrastructures. It has also been acknowledged that the notion of migration includes integration or exclusion on all levels of society, the labour market, the impact on those left in the homeland, and other issues that arise from the experiences on route and on arrival.

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Department: Saïd Business School

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 01:27:42

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Second Sir Douglas Hague Annual Lecture: Professor Raymond Dwek

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Entrepreneurship

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Professor Dwek explores Oxford University's strong track record of interacting with the commercial world.

Oxford University has a strong track record of interacting with the commercial world. This includes both spinning out new ventures that exploit its intellectual capital in the commercial world and attracting funds from the commercial world to further develop its intellectual capital. Professor Dwek is a leading Oxford scientist who has been highly successful in both aspects. Here he reflects on Oxfords experience using several seminal cases from the Universitys spin out and industry funded research activities.

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Department: Saïd Business School

Date Added: 19/01/2011

Duration: 00:53:30

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Protecting Palestinian children from political violence

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This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London.

This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London. The talk given by Dr Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte, was on the subject of the Policy Briefing - 'Protecting Palestinian children from political violence: the role of the international community'.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 12/01/2011

Duration: 00:33:25

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Creating Power: Changing Character of War Program 2010 Annual Lecture

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Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman of King's College, London, gives the 2010 Changing Character of War lecture on the 29th November 2010 entitled 'Creating Power'.

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 10/01/2011

Duration: 00:51:57

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Podcasts from the History Faculty. Today the University is one of the world's most encompassing centres for the study of history. The faculty has about a hundred permanent teaching staff, nearly twelve hundred undergraduates, and almost five hundred graduate students attracted from many countries. Historians also abound in other departments. At their service is the Bodleian library and its ancillaries, which count among the greatest of research collections.

Invisible War: The United States and The Iraq Sanctions

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Special seminar from the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) given by Professor Jay Gordan (Fairfield University with Professor David Miller (Oxford).

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 05/01/2011

Duration: 00:57:24

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An Extraordinary Humanitarian Intervention - Why We Fight Conference lecture 2

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Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Dr. Gerhard Overland (Oslo/ Melbourne), gives his paper followed by a discussion.