If Seeds Could Only Talk

I just read about a 2,000-year-old date seed that scientists successfully germinated in Israel. How incredible! It's like a time capsule of sorts, maybe the closest thing we have to time travel. The date plant is the only one of its kind, in an extinct lineage. I can only imagine the nerve-wracking weight of responsibility the cultivator of that seed must have felt. And now it is a three-foot-tall sprouting piece of history, with a tantalizing array of ancient genetic diversity in every cell. Nature and science are truly amazing!