Plants have been one of the most powerful forces on Earth since the apparition of life. They have evolved from nothing to everything using their magnificent strategies to survive in our planet. From algae and early ferns to conifers and flowering plants, this kingdom has achieved the ultimate power to control, in some ways, life o Earth. In an approaching to this kingdom, BBC Two is now broadcasting a TV series called How to Grow a Planet, produced by Andrew Thompson and presented by Prof. Iain Stewart.
Two of three episodes were already broadcasted. In the second one, scientist Iain Steward leads us to the evolution of green plants throughout millennia until the apparition of the first flowering plant. Today, an impressive plant in New Guinea, Amborella trichopada, is the oldest survivor of the age of the first flowers. With white new petals it was able to attract insects to take its pollen from one flower to another. So powerful that strategy became that almost half of the planet is now covered by the descendants of those first plants with the smartest mutation ever. Indeed, the evolution of the animal kingdom would never have been as we know today if flowering plants had not ever appeared on Earth.
In an attempt of people being aware of their surrounding environment, this series is the best option to spread both, knowledge and consciousness, about the gorgeous history of our planet.
How to Grow a Planet, BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c6c2b
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