Guest: Dr Corneile Minaar | Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University

 

In the 2007 animated film Bee movie, Hollywood used creative license to explain how flowers are pollinated and honey is distributed by bees.  The movie was a cute imaging of how things go down in the animal kingdom.

Now we don’t have to imagine any longer as a researcher from Stellenbosch university has broken new ground in a field of research around pollen grains and pollination.

LISTEN as biologist, Dr Corneile Minaar, explains his unique low-cost method of tracking the whole pollination process via ‘quantum dots’…

Guest: Dr Corneile Minaar | Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University
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In the 2007 animated film Bee movie, Hollywood used creative license to explain how flowers are pollinated and honey is distributed by bees.&nbsp; The movie was a cute imaging of how things go down in the animal kingdom.
Now we don&rsquo;t have to imagine any longer as a researcher from Stellenbosch university has broken new ground in a field of research around pollen grains and pollination.
LISTEN as biologist, Dr Corneile Minaar, explains his unique low-cost method of tracking the whole pollination process via &lsquo;quantum dots&rsquo;&hellip;

Lunch with Pippa Hudson. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Lunch with Pippa Hudson. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Afternoons with Pippa. Time to catch up on what's been happening in the City for both lifestyle and news subjects.

Pippa Hudson completed her Honours degree in English at the University of Witwatersrand.

Pippa trained in radio news at Johannesburg’s ABC Ulwazi broadcasting school.

Her on-air career started in 1998 as a news reporter at Classic FM, and a year later she moved to Cape Town to join a commercial radio station where she was later promoted first to News Editor and then to Station Manager in 2003.

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