Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
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Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#2Somewhat misleading title, but a very interesting read nonetheless. "Welcome... To Neolithic Park!"
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#3Somewhat misleading title, but a very interesting read nonetheless. "Welcome... To Neolithic Park!"
What's misleading about it? Did you read it as saying the flower bloomed naturally after thawing without human help?
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#4Somewhat misleading title, but a very interesting read nonetheless. "Welcome... To Neolithic Park!"
What's misleading about it? Did you read it as saying the flower bloomed naturally after thawing without human help?
The flower itself didn't so much bloom after being frozen, as cultivated tissue was worked in vitro to produce a viable flower. It's not exactly clickbait given the payoff, but it's still less than truthful IMO.
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's misleading about it? Did you read it as saying the flower bloomed naturally after thawing without human help?
The flower itself didn't so much bloom after being frozen, as cultivated tissue was worked in vitro to produce a viable flower. It's not exactly clickbait given the payoff, but it's still less than truthful IMO.
I guess I automatically assumed it was a human-assisted process since the link was to nature.com, although in hindsight it would have been equally publishable, if not more so, if the flower bloomed on its own.
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#6Somewhat misleading title, but a very interesting read nonetheless. "Welcome... To Neolithic Park!"
What's misleading about it? Did you read it as saying the flower bloomed naturally after thawing without human help?
Actually thats exactly what I thought it would be. Expected to see an area in the Tundra's with a wildflower bed.
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#7I guess it's all about freeze/thaw cycles, if the plant can handle one 6 month freeze, it can probably handle one 30,000 year freeze. The freezing is what causes damage, not the being-frozen. I guess.
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#8Nice to read about a new breakthrough in botany. The field doesn't get much attention at all. Maybe now it will benefit from the popularity of Martian, the movie.
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#9When talking about megafauna resurrection, it is often said that it's not possible because DNA degrades too much after a few thousand years. Yet apparently the DNA of this plant was still viable. What am I missing?
Re: Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)
#10When talking about megafauna resurrection, it is often said that it's not possible because DNA degrades too much after a few thousand years. Yet apparently the DNA of this plant was still viable. What am I missing?
Perhaps plant DNA is hardier against time, bacteria, freeze/thaw cycles, etc than animal DNA? I'm not a biologist, so I'd also love to know.