The mission to resurrect ancient date palm plants in Israel.
. As part of a long-term project at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel, scientists hope to breed Judean date palms -- a variety that was praised in antiquity for its sweetness, large size, long shelf life, and supposed ability to fight disease, but which went extinct hundreds of years ago when repeated conflict wiped out the date plantations.A composite of archival images of date palm plants.
It's unusual to find seeds that can remain viable for so long. One of the few other examples was in 1995, when researchersthat they had successfully germinated approximately 1,200-year-old seeds of a Sacred Lotus found in an ancient lake bed in China. Date palm seeds can tolerate dehydration, and the ancient date seeds were found in an extremely dry environment, which may be one reason they survived so long.
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