The age of seeds : how plants hack time and why our future depends on it / Fiona McMillan-Webster (Author).

By:

McMillan-Webster, Fiona

Material type: Text

TextPort Melbourne, Vic.: Thames & Hudson Australia, 2022Description: xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781760761783

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Summary: Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy young date palm. That seeds produced millennia ago could still be viable today suggests seeds are capable of extreme lifespans. Yet many seeds, including those crucial to our everyday lives, don't live very long at all. In The Age of Seeds Fiona McMillan-Webster tells the astonishing story of seed longevity, the crucial role they play in our everyday lives, and what that might mean for our future.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	State Botanical Collection	RBG	582.0467 AGE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	06/07/2023	RBG00023302

Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy young date palm. That seeds produced millennia ago could still be viable today suggests seeds are capable of extreme lifespans. Yet many seeds, including those crucial to our everyday lives, don't live very long at all. In The Age of Seeds Fiona McMillan-Webster tells the astonishing story of seed longevity, the crucial role they play in our everyday lives, and what that might mean for our future.