Als ik links en rechts hierover artikelen lees moeten we 'ontkiemen van zaden' met een korrel zout nemen.
De wetenschappers hebben cellen gevonden in de zaden die levensvatbaar zijn en die in het laboratorium laten groeien.
Citaat van enkele artikelen: On occasion, when a frozen fossil or seed is turned up, there are wild claims made about growing dinosaur DNA or growing wheat from a mummy's tomb. But, the research team has a radio carbon date to prove it, though further study will need to be done to confirm the age of the seeds given. Thousands of the seeds were found buried about 125 feet below the surface in what was once a squirrel den. Scientists tried to grow the seeds and failed, so they took cells from the seeds' placenta and thawed them out. They were then grown in cultures in the lab. Start the slideshow to see an ancient plant living in the modern world.
"The experiment was successful thanks to the discovery of viable particles from the placenta of three fruits found intact by our colleagues in a squirrel burrow," sats Yashina.
"Preserved in eternal ice in a perfect state, the three fruits had not germinated and has therefore kept the placental tissue cells viable," she adds.
In their lab near Moscow, the scientists originally sought to grow plants from mature S. stenophylla seeds, but when that failed, they turned to the plant's placental tissue, the fruit structure to which seeds attach, to successfully grow regenerated whole plants in pots under controlled light and temperature.
Maar dan nog zijn de delen of cellen van het zaad levensvatbaar na 30.000 jaar
