Saturday, June 14, 2008

Amazing plant life - ancient seed sprouts after 2,000 years


Forget cryopreservation – hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so.

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