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Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Mar 2012
Yashina Svetlana, Gubin Stanislav, Maksimovich Stanislav, Yashina Alexandra, Gakhova Edith, Gilichinsky David
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Whole, fertile plants of Silene stenophylla Ledeb. (Caryophyllaceae) have been uniquely regenerated from maternal, immature fruit tissue of Late Pleistocene age using in vitro tissue culture and clonal micropropagation. The fruits were excavated in northeastern Siberia from fossil squirrel burrow...
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