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Reading about the new ''seed vault'' in Norway...

albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.

18 years ago

Reading about the new "seed vault" in Norway I got to wondering -- has anyone successfully extracted all the genetic material from one seed and replaced the genetic material of another and got a viable plant?

If one could just store the genetic material and there was no need to store the whole seed then the conditions of a "vault" should be easier to maintain, I should think.

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pineresin
18 years ago
Too expensive to do it that way!
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
Original Author
18 years ago
Sorry, I was not thinking about cost considerations.

Has the storage of genetic material been done? Could the storage of genetic material in theory be done?
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ken_mce
18 years ago
>has anyone successfully extracted all the genetic material >from one seed and replaced the genetic material of another >and got a viable plant?

It's been done with ova, don't know about plants.

>If one could just store the genetic material and there was >no need to store the whole seed then the conditions of a >"vault" should be easier to maintain, I should think.

Er, why? A seed is specifically designed to store that information reliably. They want reliability, so I expect they'll go old skool. Someday we may be able to store that stuff as a string of letters, and build a sample from just whatever's in the book, but this ain't that day.

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