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Science 6 October 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3797, pp. 113 - 114
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3797.113
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Lupinus arcticus Wats. Grown from Seeds of Pleistocene Age

A. E. Porsild 1, C. R. Harington 1, and G. A. Mulligan 2

1 National Museum of Canada
2 Plant Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa

Seeds of the arctic tundra lupine (Lupinus arcticus) at least 10,000 years old were found in lemming burrows deeply buried in permanently frozen silt of Pleistocene age in unglaciated central Yukon. They readily germinated in the laboratory and have since grown into normal, healthy plants.


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