Ancient Palm Resurrected from 2000-Year-Old Seed

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

Scientists have successfully grown a date palm from a 2000-year-old seed dug up from the Judean desert. That makes the seed, whose age has just been verified by radiocarbon dating, the oldest ever to germinate.

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SOMNUS, a CCCH-Type Zinc Finger Protein in Arabidopsis

kavin submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The in vivo analysis shows that PIL5 activates the expression of SOM by binding directly to its promoter, suggesting that PIL5 regulates ABA and GA metabolic genes partly through SOM. In agreement with these results, we also observed that the reduced germination frequency of a PIL5 overexpression line is rescued by the som mutation and that this rescue is accompanied by expressional changes in ABA and GA metabolic genes

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