Description
Tutor: Beverley Glover
Date: Monday 20th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35
Location: Classroom
Join the Botanic Garden Director, Professor Beverley Glover, for this half-day course to explore the concept of colour in plants. Colour in plants is of great cultural importance, influencing many areas of human endeavour including horticulture, art, and gastronomy. Colour also plays a vital role in the biology of plants by absorbing harmful radiation from the sun, capturing light to drive photosynthesis, and signalling the availability of flowers and fruit. This half-day course of lecture, practical demonstration, and garden walk with Botanic Garden Director, Professor Beverley Glover will explore the concept of colour in plants. Beverley will explain how colourful pigments are made, by what mechanisms different colour hues are achieved and for what effect, why some colours are more common than others, and how plants can make structural colour without the use of pigments at all.
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Cancellations
If you need to cancel your booking, please inform the Learning Office in writing as soon as possible at 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE or email [email protected] The cancellation is effective from the date that your written confirmation is received. If you cancel with more than 4 weeks' notice we will refund your balance less 20% to cover administration. For cancellations made with less than 4 weeks' notice we regret that we are unable to make any refund unless we can fill your place on the course. If we are able to fill your place we will refund your balance less 20% to cover administration.
Amendments
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