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How do you turn an orange into a grapefruit?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Flavouring. It’s a global industry and here in Oxford a group of scientists are getting a ‘taste’ of the action by making natural flavours by manipulating enzymes.

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How do you grow rice faster?

3 billion people depend on rice for survival & owing to predicted population increases, land that provided enough rice to feed 27 people in 2010 will need to support 43 by 2050. In this week's podcast episode we ask: how do you grow rice faster?
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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Alize Pennec
Keywords
chemistry
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 27/02/2017
Duration: 00:11:41

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