How does genetics help conserve rare plants? – with Mike Fay

Описание: The lady's slipper orchid was once thought to be extinct in England - but genetics have helped to bring it back from the brink, as part of a long-running conservation project.

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This lecture was filmed at the Royal Institution on 17 November 2022.

0:00 Intro
1.37: Tracing rare surnames – the power of DNA
8.24: Why is the lady’s slipper plant rare in the UK?
15:45: The biology and propagation of orchids
22:41: The re-introduction of the lady’s slipper orchid
24:22: What are the genetic questions?
37:44 How next generation sequencing helped
45:43 Collaborating with geneticists across Europe
51:58 Sexual vs clonal reproduction
59:36 How fungi affects reproduction
1:02 Conclusion

Mike is the 2022 Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecturer: https://genetics.org.uk/medals-and-pr...

The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way.

Michael Fay graduated from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in Genetics and Plant Breeding, and then carried out research on genetic resources in clover for his PhD at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (now Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University).

After two years working for the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International as a Scientific Information Officer, he moved to Kew (where he still works) in 1986, as Head of the Micropropagation Unit.

In 1995, he established a program in Conservation Genetics in the Jodrell Laboratory. Subsequently, he became Head of Genetics, and is now Senior Research Leader in Conservation Genetics and Molecular Ecology.

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