32,000 year old plant from the Russian permafrost brought back to life

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Many prehistoric secrets lie in the permafrost of the world's arctic regions. Whether its a well-preserved mammoth or ancient plants, scientists can learn a lot from these biological discoveries. A Russian team regenerated a series of fertile, flowering Silene stenophylla plants from 32,000-year-old seed pods. 

The discovery of the prehistoric seed pods was part of the larger excavation of ancient ground squirrel hibernation burrows in ice deposits in Siberia. The fruit of the Silene stenophylla specifically date to about 32,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. 

The Russian team first tried to use mature seeds from the fruit pods. However, these seeds could not generate a plant. The team then tried placental tissue from immature seeds. Using cloning technology, 36 plants were bred from the ancient material. While they looked like the modern Silene stenophylla which still grows in the area, once the plants flowered, the petals were spaced further apart than in the modern version. 

Source - https://mymodernmet.com/scientists-revived-32000-year-old-plant-dna/

[PunkTheFunk 125,719]

We need to bring some wooly mammoths back to life too 

[JustTea 6,960]

Who knows what kind of diseases could be found from the permafrost.

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16 minutes ago, JustTea said:

Who knows what kind of diseases could be found from the permafrost.

Yes, my concern as well, it's scary 

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Madonna use to water this very plant when she was a little girl!!

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guess what else they found at the permafrost 

 

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1 hour ago, PunkTheFunk said:

We need to bring some wooly mammoths back to life too 

I'm certain this will happen eventually. They are planning to inseminate an elephant with a elephant x mammoth hybrid. So it will not be a 100% mammoth but something close enough.

I can't wait to thread it here on GGD in 2035 when/ if it happens.

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5 hours ago, Deadcool said:

Madonna use to water this very plant when she was a little girl!!

You are wrong for this.

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We need to bring him back to life 

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5 minutes ago, flyaway said:

We need to bring him back to life 

Hottie