Dear Giby Yes I read it in February , PNAS paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/17/1118386109.full.pdf
was quite exciting *BUT what I kept wondering was why would squirrels all those years ago prefer silene seeds to other more nutritious food ... like larger nuts .. acorns etc... may be the tundra gave them not a lot of choice... * and there is already a taxonomic fight over the plants regenerated from these seeds... swedish and norwagian group claims its not the plant the original researchers claim... they say its not Silene stenophylla Ledeb. but instead it is of Silene linnaeana Czerepanov (Lychnis sibirica L.) group . URL for it is http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/E2735.extract?sid=550a652c-f254-4576-b23e-54612803d41f REGARDLESS OF THE TAXONOMIC FIGHT THEY are waging I think the flowers in the first PNAS paper are very beautiful and its god''s own wonder that the placental tissue could give rise to new plants after so many millennia. *I marveled at the constituents of the growth medium... They even had medium number two fortified with coconut milk and I see no results stated for it... * I may just have to write to them and ask I had forgotten this detail thanks for bring it up. Usha di = On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > > Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen > years<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17100574> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17100574 > > > > Regards, > Giby > > > > > > -- > GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > Assistant Professor > PG and Research Department of Botany > Sacred Heart College > Thevara > Kochi- 682 013 > Kerala, India > Phone - +914844044436 (office) +919947109987 (Mobile) > visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby > > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
