Environmental

Seed Time-Capsule Will Aid Study of Plant Evolution Amid Environmental Change

TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2011.  Everything that scientists can ever know about long-gone creatures is what they can deduce from fossils. But what if they could resurrect actual specimens and compare their features with their modern-day descendants? That’s a notion that has University of Toronto biologists helping to create a seed bank that will let future researchers do exactly that with plants, allowing them to measure evolution caused by global change.

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