Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost

[Maggi Young]

"Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost."

by Charlotte Evans · January 20, 2015

 "Russian scientists have successfully regenerated the 30, 000 year old plant, Silene stenophylla, from fruit tissue buried 20–40 m  in the undisturbed permafrost of the Kolyma River, Siberia. This breakthrough has succeeded the previous record holder for most ancient viable organism, which was a 2,000 year old date palm from Israel."

 Read more  from  this article from Science NutShell  here

[fermi de Sousa]

Jurassic Park, here we come
 
cheers
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[Martinr]

Excuse the pun......this is old news! And I'm sure it was discussed here 2 or 3 years ago, wasn't it? Anyway, very interesting and, perhaps, best is the link in the Nutshell article to the original published paper. Proper open source science

[Maggi Young]

Might be worth sharing the link here, in case the article link disappears :
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/10/4008.full.pdf+html