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The Green Planet
Seeds that Literally Run Away
The seeds of wild oats have an incredible ability to find the right spot to grow...they walk! This ability was selected out of cultivated oats to make it easier to gather the seeds and grow new crops.
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Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans help plants, many of which face extinction.
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Sir David Attenborough explores desert plants with survival tactics.
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Sir David Attenborough reveals the surprising effects of the seasons on plant life.
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Sir David Attenborough discovers amazing water plants, some of which can count and hunt.
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Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest.