Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Yashina, Svetlana, Gubin, Stanislav, Maksimovich, Stanislav, Yashina, Alexandra, Gakhova, Edith, Gilichinsky, David
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2012
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Burrows; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309767; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355102; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118386109

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 burrows b...