Synopsis
This news report looks at a new technique being used to help treat disease in British trees using a very interesting ingredient.
- Programme: Newsround
- Episode: 21/10/2014
- Channel: CBBC
- Broadcast year: 2014
- English Literature | Ecology | Adaptations, interdependence and competition | Biotic factors
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