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

[Tim Fisher]

I wonder if it's an extinct variety? I assume they’ve been selected for high yield and larger fruits over a couple millennia.

Tim Fisher
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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.


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