Is it true if bees die out, our planet has only four years left? There’s no better person to ask than Dr Natasha de Vere, head of science at the National Botanic Garden of Wales , where up to 1.5 million bees are currently buzzing around the 568 acres of flowers and greenery. What she and her team of scientists don’t know about bees and other pollinators (animals that move pollen around so fruit and seeds grow) probably isn’t worth considering. Their world-leading expertise isn’t necessarily what you’d expect if you’re dropping into the garden on the Carmarthenshire tourist trail, with work which not only benefits the environment but could also bring relief to hayfever sufferers as well as discoveries about the superbug MRSA. The scientific accolades are impressive. Natasha joined the garden 11 years ago, leading research which made Wales the first nation in the world to create a DNA barcode library of our native flowering plants and conifers, a project which has now expanded to build up a database of flora throughout the UK. It means a tiny fragment of pollen, leaf or root is all that’s needed to identify a plant which has its DNA barcode in… Read full this story
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