{"id":195774,"date":"2008-06-14T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/14\/researchers-regrow-2000-year-old-judean-date-palm\/"},"modified":"2008-06-14T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:47:00","slug":"researchers-regrow-2000-year-old-judean-date-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/14\/researchers-regrow-2000-year-old-judean-date-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Regrow 2000 Year Old Judean Date Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of neat.  Let&#8217;s hope that it&#8217;s a female tree, and thus can bear fruit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSL12315791\"><\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSL12315791\">Researchers confirm age of &#8220;Methuselah&#8221; tree<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:00pm EDT<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">By Ari Rabinovitch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">JERUSALEM, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli researchers who grew a sapling from a date seed found at the ancient fortress Masada said on Thursday the seed was about 2,000 years old and may help restore a species of biblical trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Carbon dating confirmed that the seed &#8212; named Methuselah after the oldest person in the bible &#8212; was the oldest ever brought back to life, Sarah Sallon, a researcher at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, reported in the journal Science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The seed came from the Judean date palm, a species that once flourished in the Jordan River Valley and has been extinct for centuries, Sallon said. It was one of a group discovered at Masada, a winter palace overlooking the Dead Sea built by King Herod in the 1st century BC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of neat. Let&#8217;s hope that it&#8217;s a female tree, and thus can bear fruit. Researchers confirm age of &#8220;Methuselah&#8221; treeThu Jun 12, 2008 2:00pm EDTBy Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli researchers who grew a sapling from a date seed found at the ancient fortress Masada said on Thursday the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,1011,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-history","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}