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1. Various Broccoli
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2. Broccoli on market stall
3. Warwick HRI sign
4. Extreme c.u. broccoli (x 2)
5. Revolving display of vegetables
6. Broccoli on stand
7. Warwick HRI Chelsea Show Stand
8. RHS Chelsea Flower Show signs
9. Wide - flower display at show
10. Wide "reclining woman" garden
11. Dr Teakle & colleague on Warwick HRI stand
12. Revolving display
13. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Graham Teakle, Brassica Geneticist, Warwick HRI, University of Warwick -
"Brassicas are potentially very important for our future. We eat a lot of Brassicas in our diet, so if we can improve the health benefits they deliver to us then that's a good thing for everyone. They also have a potentially big role to play in manufacturing, as a source of oils for making plastics or for use in bio diesels, for instance."
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14. Wide - Marshalls' truck
15. Focus pull, wild flowers to broccoli in field
16. Pan across field of broccoli
17. Wide - watering brassicas in greenhouse
18. Various greenhouse
19. (Roger & David White) checking young plants
20. grower lifting plant tray
21. young plant in grower's hand and plant tray
22. Set up Bridgid McKevith, Senior nutrition scientist British Nutrition Foundation
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Bridgid McKevith British Nutrition Foundation ,Senior nutrition scientist
"Broc is quite an important vegetables as well as having the nutrients most vegetables have it has a particular compound which we think may be important for health and you can only find it in Brocilli and similar vegetables like cauliflower and cabbage if you are missing out on those vegetables you may be missing out on something really important."
24. Various Broclli
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25. SOUNDBITE (English) Bridgid McKevith, British Nutrition Foundation, Senior nutrition scientist
"green vegetables are an important part of the diet like most vegetables naturally low in fat and calories and they also provide a natural source of fibre which is really important and some vitamins and minerals, particularly vitamin C. They are really important nutrients we should be having more of in our diet"
24. Various broccoli
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25.SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Roger White, Director of Westhorpe Flowers and Plants Ltd., Organic Plant Producers for Marshalls -
"Biodiversity is extremely important, because as with organics, we're using no pesticides, or conventionally we're trying to use less and less pesticides. We need the breeder to come up with resistant strains of brassicas, which can be incorporated into the conventional plants we grow."
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26. Wide, Dr Teakle and colleague on stand
27. Wide, visitors at show
28. Pan from visitor (actor Alex Kington) to garden display
29. Wide of garden exhibit
30. Wide - tower of flowering plants
31. Wide - "5 a Day" exhibit
32. "Lifelong Learning" banner
33. Microscope on Warwick HRI
34. Wide - Warwick HRI stand
35. Revolving brassica display
36. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Dr. Graham Teakle - Brassica Geneticist, Warwick HRI, University of Warwick
"When breeders are breeding new varieties of brassicas, say a cauliflower breeder breeding a new variety of cauliflower, he tends to cross between the different elite varieties within the cauliflower family - but that is perhaps losing sight of the huge range of diversity and potential source of beneficial genes in all the other different varieties of brassicas; so, what we're trying to address is to produce technologies and materials that breeders can then tap into that will make it easier for them to use these wider, more diverse sources of genes for improving individual crop types like cauliflowers or broccoli, for instance."
37. Wide - Warwick HRI stand with surfboard in foreground
38. Oilseed Rape flower
39. Wide - surfboard and oilseed rape plant
40. Revolving brassica display
LEADIN
George Bush Senior famously announced his dislike of broccoli , and banned it from the White House during his Presidency.
But according to scientists at Warwick HRI, the Plant Research arm of the University of Warwick, this could have been one of his less successful presidential decisions.
Warwick HRI's "Riding the Wave of Brassica Bio-Diversity" display at this year's Chelsea Flower Show in London is set to be one of the successes of an event more commonly associated with lush blooms and exotic garden design.
Broccoli, a member of the Brassica family, is more than just a vegetable.
Researchers claim brassicas are environmentally friendly, a rich source of antioxidants and can contribute to the future of our energy needs.
Scientists are now developing different ways of using Broccoli in manufacturing, as a source of oils for making plastics, or for use in bio diesels.
Working with growers such as Marshalls, the largest commercial grower/packer of brassicas in Europe, Dr Teakle and his colleagues are able to develop new strains of these plants that improve on some of their natural characteristics.
For example, by using wild relatives of more common brassicas, they can breed plants with higher resistance to pests and fungal diseases, reducing the need for pesticides and sprays.
The Warwick HRI Genetic Resources Unit holds the largest collection of vegetable brassicas in the world, and their scientists believe it's important to encourage cross breeding from the widest possible range of Brassicas.
They maintain it will maximise benefits such as less need for pesticides, a naturally longer shelf life and better health properties, including defending against cancers.
This super veg is high in soluble fibre and high in vitamin C. It also contains the compound glucoraphanin, which leads to an anticancer compound, sulforaphane.
The National Cancer Institute suggests that broccoli, along with its cruciferous family members, may be important in the prevention of some types of cancer.
It's the diversity of Brassicas that Warwick HRI is keen to promote.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London is one of the world's leading horticultural events, attracting plant lovers from around the globe.
It showcases some truly special garden designs, and spectacular displays of flowers - but it also aims to raise the public's understanding and appreciation of all things related to plants and horticulture.
The "Lifelong Learning" section of the show is particularly focused on the science behind gardening. Warwick HRI hope their presentation will open minds to the value of the large and diverse genus of plants known as Brassicas.
The display even includes a prototype surfboard, constructed by the Eden Project in part from plant oils.
Crossing one form of Brassica, Oil Seed Rape, with other forms such as Broccoli could expand the range of vegetable oils available to manufacturing - demonstrating one more product that could benefit from broccoli in the future.
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