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Title: Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost
Post by: Maggi Young on January 22, 2015, 04:23:46 PM

"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 (http://www.sciencenutshell.com/regeneration-fertile-plants-buried-30000-years-ago-permafrost/)

Title: Re: Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost
Post by: fermi de Sousa on January 22, 2015, 10:53:35 PM

Jurassic Park, here we come :o
 ;D ;D ;D
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost
Post by: Martinr on January 23, 2015, 06:09:56 AM

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 :)

Title: Re: Regeneration of Fertile Plants Buried 30,000 Years Ago in Permafrost
Post by: Maggi Young on January 23, 2015, 10:29:48 AM

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