{"id":3811,"date":"2014-04-13T20:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T00:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2014-04-13T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T00:35:55","slug":"plant-regrowth-after-1600-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/plant-regrowth-after-1600-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant regrowth after 1,600 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here and my parents have started planning their garden by growing tomato seeds indoors.\u00a0 In about a month\u2019s time, these seeds will have grown into small plants that will be transplanted to the earth outside when the weather is warmer.\u00a0 There was an interesting article published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982214000864\">March 17th issue of <em>Current Biology<\/em><\/a> that discusses how scientists were able to regrow a moss plant that had been frozen for 1,600 years.\u00a0 They just let it thaw and watered it.\u00a0 According to the authors, it is the first study to report the revival of a frozen plant or animal after such a long period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here and my parents have started planning their garden by growing tomato seeds indoors.\u00a0 In about a month\u2019s time, these seeds will have grown into small plants that will be transplanted to the earth outside when the weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/plant-regrowth-after-1600-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-scientific-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}