30 000 year old Silene stenophylla tissue cultured

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30 000 year old Silene stenophylla tissue cultured

Post by canadianplant » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:22 am

http://news.discovery.com/earth/pleisto ... 20221.html

THey got viable tissue from a fruit that was buried in the ground, then frosted over.


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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:48 am

I read that article yesterday, it was great! There have been a couple other finds like this, one of them was a forest buried under ash in northern China. Also, the Judaean date palm (from 2000 year old seed) is now as tall as a person!
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Post by canadianplant » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:49 am

Did they find out if methusala was male or female?
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Post by TimMAz6 » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:11 pm

grow such old plants is very interesting. I hope they find even older plant material.
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Post by DesertZone » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:32 pm

Amazing read, I hope to see many more. :D
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Post by lucky1 » Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:16 pm

Fascinating.
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Post by lucky1 » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:21 am

Re Methuselah palm, since they did DNA testing on it, how come they don't know if it's male or female?
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Post by canadianplant » Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:49 am

I havnt seen any new updates on it, only that the seed fnally got carbon dated. It is indeed around 2000 years old!
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Post by Paul Ont » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:02 pm

lucky1 wrote:Re Methuselah palm, since they did DNA testing on it, how come they don't know if it's male or female?
Not sure if this is true. AND I'm too lazy to look it up. If the sex of the palm is not know, perhaps they don't yet know what causes sex determination in Phoenix?

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Post by canadianplant » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:09 am

Paul Ont wrote:
lucky1 wrote:Re Methuselah palm, since they did DNA testing on it, how come they don't know if it's male or female?
Not sure if this is true. AND I'm too lazy to look it up. If the sex of the palm is not know, perhaps they don't yet know what causes sex determination in Phoenix?

I think thats tha case here. They can tell that half its genetic material is from the modern date palm. You would have to assume if they were able to, they would determine sex.
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