Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

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Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

By Andrew Curry, Science News, Feb. 5, 2020

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/dead-sea-dates-grown-2000-year-old-seeds

 

Scientists Revive Ancient Trees From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds

Heard on All Things Considered, February 6, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/02/06/803186316/dates-like-jesus-ate-scientists-revive-ancient-trees-from-2-000-year-old-seeds

 

The open–acess paper is:

 

Sarah Sallon, Emira Cherif, Nathalie Chabrillange, Elaine 

Solowey, Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric

Terral, Markus Egli, and Frédérique Aberlenc, 2020, Origins 

and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on 

genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds and 

morphometric studies Science Advances  05 Feb 2020:

Vol. 6, no. 6, eaax0384 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0384

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax0384

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.