A Resurrected Date by Any Other Name Would Still Taste As Sweet, or, Jurassic Park in the Judean Desert

<p>Resurrection genomics sounds fancy, even a little scary, but in this case it means cultivating date trees from ancient seeds and then sequencing their genes. What do we learn about the antiquity of this ever-popular fruit? And if dates are so great, how come the tree is the symbol and not the fruit? Our panelists are torn, yet characteristically sweet and sticky.</p> <p> </p> <p>To learn more</p> <p> </p> <p>Researchers Sequence Genomes of Revived 2,000-Year-Old Date Palms</p> <p><a href='http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/judean-date-palm-genomes-09627.html'>http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/judean-date-palm-genomes-09627.html</a></p>