By Mohammed Atti and Imad Creidi BASRA, Iraq, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In greenhouses and sterile laboratories west of Basra, Iraqi ...

One of the date palms that was germinated from a 2,200 year old seed, now growing in Israel. (Credit: Sarah Sallon) Scientists grew seven Judean date palm trees from a few dozen 2,000-year-old seeds ...

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire dominated the world, and it had a favorite fruit — dates. Ancient dates — varieties of the fruit that eventually led to the basis of the bacon-wrapped treats ...

The researchers hope to resurrect a variety of date praised in antiquity. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah -- all sat ...

Methuselah date palm, grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at Masada, is now in kibbutz Ketura. The history of the date palm in Israel is inextricably bound to the history of Israel itself. A great ...

The ASU Tempe campus is a designated arboretum that is meant to be an oasis for plants from around the world, including the date palms that line the sidewalks on campus. ASU is home to the largest ...

Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology have successfully sequenced the genome of previously extinct date palm varieties that lived more than 2,000 years ago.