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This is changing with Universities now offering full plant science degrees there are many jobs in plant sciences as governments and companies are beginning to see how important it is. It could be argued that many of the world’s problems can be solved with plants forests, food, habitats are all areas that need experts, and while there are many graduates of zoology degrees there are few from plant sciences. How is a difference made? I think we can all make a simple difference by introducing plants to friends and relatives, opening eyes to the trees and weeds and the force of life going on around us and under our feet. She created the Edge of Yesterday interactive platform to pioneer a new form of engaged "learning through story.There is however, a great appetite among young people to be green, to recycle and mend the excesses of the generations that went before them often students tell me it’s the biggest issue for them and they’d like to make a difference. Robin Stevens Payes, a social marketing consultant and science writer, is the author of Edge of Yesterday, a teen time travel novel series. Scary thought, or wise planning: what do you think? Or perhaps the funders have in mind a “just-in-case” depository to allow future humans to restart our food supply in the event of severe climate change. Just as Methuselah has been brought back from extinction, perhaps the effort is designed to allow future generations to cultivate food supplies that may no longer exist.
In a large-scale project “to preserve crop diversity for the future,” according to the Norwegian government, the Doomsday Seed Bank has been seeded (pun intended!) to storehouse seeds from up to three million different varieties of plant species, specially wrapped to keep moisture out (and avoid accidental sprouting), in a remote Norwegian island in the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean.
More, the mere exercise of bringing ancient seeds to life again might be vital to our future. But other questions come out of the experiment: do these fruits have any unique medicinal properties? Might they offer evidence about plant evolution, or changes in the region’s climate? The fruit from the tree gives us a better idea about the diet of people in the ancient Middle East. The exercise to bring back ancient seeds is more than one of curiosity, though. This tree that has sprouted from an ancient seed has been able to germinate female date trees from a handful of other seeds found there, and would like to cultivate an entire orchard of the ancient trees. Soloway was able to pollinate a female tree from Methuselah to produce dates. Today, the “Methuselah” palm tree stands over ten feet tall. After uncovering a treasure trove of ancient seeds stored in a clay jar on top of Masada, near the Dead Sea, in Israel in 2005, scientist Elaine Soloway was able to sprout an ancient date palm to life. In the plant realm, though, bringing back ancient life is very much science fact, thank you. So far, though scientists say they are close, actually bringing back extinct species back to life has proved to be a challenge. Jurassic Park created excitement with the idea of scientists cloning dinosaurs using DNA from ancient dinosaur bones or eggs. Could preserving ancient seeds jump-start new life on Planet Earth?
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