[Rockhounds] Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

[Paul]

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.