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In 2000, when botanists Frank Telewski and Jan Zeevaart unearthed and planted the seeds in the 15th bottle buried by William Beal, only one species moth mullein ( Verbascum blattaria) successfully germinated. Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0) It s difficult to know what your legacy on this planet will be, but in 1879 when Michigan State University botanist William J. Beal started his weed seed experiment, he probably didn t think his contribution to science would still be running 142 years and several generations of botanists into the future. But the Beal seed viability experiment is proof that we can surprise ourselves. Beal who was a correspondent of Charles Darwin, if that gives you any context for how long ago the experiment started was interested in how long the seeds of a variety of different weed species could sit dormant in the soil before they lost their ability to germinate.

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