Part of the Healing Power of Plants lecture series held at the Botanic Gardens.
A Spoonful of Sugar
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The talk will describe how unusual nitrogen- containing sugar analogues produced by plants are being discovered by research undertaken in collaboration with Oxford chemists. These sugar analogues may well explain the therapeutic activity of many plants and form the basis of important new medicines.
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The Oxford Botanic Garden is a national reference collection of 7,000 different types of plant, making it the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the World - there is even more biological diversity here than there is in tropical rain forests and other biodiversity hotspots.
Many gardeners come here to seek inspiration. In the beds and borders you may find new plants that would be perfect in your garden at home and partly for this reason we strive to label clearly every...
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