| >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. | 
