Ancient ice age plants are still alive

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CALIFORNIA - University of Alberta researchers found that plants growing in the ice age still able to regenerate. Plants that are over 500 years to grow and turn green again.

Reported by the Examiner, Tuesday (05/28/2013), bryophytes (mosses), plants that have lived hundreds of years ago was found in the Teardrop Glacier, Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Plants that had been in the wild is taken and examined in the laboratory.

Carbon dating of the original specimens shows that this plant aged 400 to 600 years ago or in the era of the Ice Age (1550-1850 AD). Some plants begin to grow again in areas that have been explored by researchers.

Bryophytes have a natural ability to cover during drying and physiological life again when her condition improves. This could explain the longevity of the plant are covered by ice for five centuries.

Finally, when the ice melts, bryophytes can be "born again". Simplicity of the anatomy and physiology of this fungus suggests that these living beings are able to adapt to extreme climatic environments.

Wikipedia explains, Bryophyte is a collection of small plants that are included in Bryophytina. This plant has demonstrated unequivocal differentiation between nutrient absorbing organs and photosynthetic organs, but have not had the true roots and leaves. (FMH)


Source: www.okezone.com