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Back from the Dead: New Hope for Resurrecting Extinct Plants - Yale E360

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Armed with new technology, botanists are proposing what was once thought impractical: reviving long-lost plant species by using seeds from dried specimens in collections. The challenges remain daunting, but researchers are now searching for the best de-extinction candidates.

A branch of Blutaparon rigidum , collected on a 1905-1906 expedition to the Galapagos Islands, contains hundreds of potentially viable seeds. New York Botanical Garden In January 1769, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander found a daisy in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. Later named Chiliotrichum amelloides , it is one of a thousand plant species unknown to European scientists that the two men collected during Captain Cook’s first voyage on the HMS Endeavor , braving treacherous seas and inhospitable landscapes to document every plant they encountered as they circu

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