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Old February 20, 2012   #1
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Default 30,000 year old Seeds Revived

Interesting article where they revived seeds from the Siberian permafrost after 30,000 years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete....html?ITO=1490, really fascinating. I think Carolyn must have been secretly involved in this project to revive seeds that old!
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Old February 20, 2012   #2
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Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
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Old February 20, 2012   #3
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what a good job they were not tomatoes, ther scientists wiould be killed in the rush

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Old February 20, 2012   #4
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Funny...I was just thinking the same thing Jeannine.

Thanks for sharing this story, Defiant. Amazing and not at the same time. I knew that freezing could preserve stuff for a long time if kept constantly frozen.

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the 1st thing i thought of was this from sleeper

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Old February 21, 2012   #6
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Seeds are amazing little bits of engineering aren't they? You look at the tiny dot of an amaranth seed and consider what it becomes a few months later. Seeds are cool.

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Old February 21, 2012   #7
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From what I read it wasn't the seeds that they were able to grow the plants from but the placental tissue in the friut. from this article.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...dada3627df.251

"In their lab near Moscow, the scientists sought to grow plants from mature S. Stenophylla seeds, but when that failed, they turned to the plant's placental tissue, the fruit structure to which seeds attach, to successfully grow regenerated whole plants in pots under controlled light and temperature."

I had to sign into Google to see the article. I hope the link works for you.
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