When
we talk about technology, it’s not only making new things. Technology is a broad term and deals with
both microscopic and macroscopic objects. It takes all the values form the discrete
nature of science. This is regarding the birth of a plant whose seeds origin
date back to 32,ooo years ago.
A
flowering plant which originated in Siberia has been successfully planted by
the Russian team from the seed cache of Silence Stenophylla. This shows the remarkable performance in the
field of technology. The scientists came
to know about the age of the seeds with the help of Radiocarbon dating.
The
seeds were found in the ice were unearthed from 124 feet below the permafrost,
which was surrounded by bison and wooly rhinoceros bones. The seeds were found damaged by the squirrels
only, but some of them restored the plant material which ultimately helped to
give a birth to a new plant.
They
extracted the tissue from the frozen seeds and by applying the very latest
technique they gave life to such an old seed.
The plants—identical to each other but with different flower shapes from
modern S. Stenophylla—grew, flowered, and, after a year, created seeds of their
own.
“I
can’t see any intrinsic fault in the article,” said botanist Peter
Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, who was not
involved in the study. “Though it’s such an extraordinary report that of
course you’d want to repeat it.”
So,
this is enough to prove that the technology can do anything and the only thing needed is to take an initiative in a positive manner. Giving life to such a plant reveals the past
matter in front of us. Although it might
happen that it won’t show the proper results but there are always new avenues
to explore in the field of technology. This
time it is a plant but who knows what we may discover that changes our life like anything.
So be a Techno and discover the real world.
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