Scientists clone landmark British tree | DW News
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2024
- Scientists in England believe they have recovered a piece of history. There was shock and sadness when a centuries-old sycamore tree in was mysteriously cut down last year. But now, using a few surviving twigs and an ancient Egyptian technique - plant experts have cloned the landmark tree.
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Frankenstein-esque?! Grafting is a common practice known to millions, for centuries. How clueless is this scriptwriter?
Clickbait at its best.
Actually, grafting is when you use parts from different sources to make one plant much like Frankenstein, and has NOTHING to do with how long this knowledge has been known for. How clueless are you? everyone thinks they're a genius.
It's a coded message about roots and branches, and how we might come togerher again to defeat the monsters.
Relax brah
What a dark soul to commit a crime like this ! What harm could the beautiful tree done to you ? The coward act it’s indefensible …
So when is the trial going to be held for the people accused of cutting down the original tree in the first place?
Should just compost them to feed the clones
Neah, meat is not compostable
@@Victor-wg6iq of course it is compostable. Its just not very good soil on its own. But if you mix it with some woodchips and let it sit for a while it should make some good compost.
clone doesnt seem to be the right word here. also people really suck. what type of jerk would go and cut it down.
one who try to feed his family.?
@@geoms6263
It was cut for non-commercial purposes although motives are not fully known it is likely vandalism
@@geoms6263 with a tree?...
@@geoms6263 how does a person chop down a tree that is also a historical landmark and then leave it there to feed their family? the act of chopping does not feed anyone.
'Clone' is correct in every sense of the word. It originated as a botanical term for plants grown from cuttings (from Wiktionary: "Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”)
The roots would still be alive and sending up suckers
We can only hope.
yeah, sycamores are notoriously hard to kill. I would be very surprised if this tree wasn't growing new shoots from the stump as soon as the weather warms up enough
@@WhichDoctor1 Its hard to get into the mindset of people who commit these silly acts,you've given me hope btw as it would be such a shame to see a tree such as this be lost,thanks.
@@WhichDoctor1 Young trees grow shoots easily, but older trees not so much. This was an old tree; if its root would easily sprout new suckers, it would have been considered as a solution, don't you think?!
Yes good point well maybe if it does resprout they can plant 10 of them instead of just one with the others they made.
as long as the exposed layer is covered to prevent fungal growth, the trunk can grew new branches and leaves. just need to provide enough nutrition
One could lose faith in humanity if one hadn't already …
What's the problem?
@@user-dv7hq2rh4gSociopaths cut down trees and do not get the deerved punishment for it. I think they need to rot in prison until the tree is back to full size.
Oh, good, it's not just me.
@@user-dv7hq2rh4g , 2 men were arrested for cutting down a ~224 year old tree. The scene was found by park rangers, so I assume that's what makes this situation more serious, as the suspects' charges could be a lot more serious for vandalism on a national park.
Some people do bad things, most people are OK. A lot of people do wonderful things. You should be one of the latter and recapture your faith in humanity!
This is ridiculous! If you cut a sycamore it will regrow, it's what they do!
Hence the name, we are sick of more of them..
Depends on the age of the tree. Old ones don't regrow easily.
It was the age that made it unique
In a hundred years, the cloned tree will be 100 years old. On a human scale, that's a frustratingly long time, but the uniqueness will be restored.
@@DemPilafianHere here
They could probably just replant a fully mature tree where it was, it's just takes one machine to dig the hole and place the tree in it. We have millions of trees to choose from. It's a shame it was chopped down, but the response is stranger.
pretty sure the tree will just grow again by itself
How is grafting a cutting from a felled tree so dramatically reported without irony? This is hilariously dramatic😂
The same reason why France payed millions of dollars to repair Notre Dame.
They’re trying to harvest views
Yeah, grafting is anything but a rare technique...
Uk about to up its austerity agenda and force thousands more Ill and disabled ppl into work, so 'grafting' becomes a clever way to mindfuq ppl.
Believe it or not, many people are not familiar with agrarian techniques. Remember that most people live in cities now.
Hope new tree grow same spot as original
I understand that dwellers of concrete forests speaks about grafting like it's a magic, but actually in forestry it's one if not a single method to achieve fruit tree saplings nowadays, so not a big new. Any tree cloned with this method preserves it's genetic age, so any apple/plum/apricot or pretty much any other fruit tree in your neighborhood is actually thousand if not tens of thousands years old genetically.
We locals all know who did it. Just some nutter with a grudge against the National Trust. The sooner they get convicted in court the better.
All this commotion all because the tree was in Robin Hood. Meanwhile another 100ha of rainforest is cut down in Brazil, but we're all chill about that...
It's not the same. Even you clone or whatever, it's always a imitation of original.
It's not really a clone, they shouldn't have called it that. It's more like taking a cutting. It is absolutely the same plant still alive and still growing.
No, they just took a cutting...
There are almost no trees around. Why aren't more trees of all appropriate sorts and other plants not being planted?
that's murder!
That's no clone, that's Frankenstein tree. When you use the roots of another tree and stick in it some twigs of the original tree.
Investigations continue??? How long can it take??
It means they don’t have enough evidence to charge anyone but don’t want to close the investigation yet.
Any Gardner knows about grafting plants....but OK ''SCIENTISTS CLONING'
So it's a cutting then?
From space images we found maybe more than 10million years remains under mountains
what is this all about? souvenir trees? this type of tree regrows on its own even if cut i thought
I hope these 2 men who cut it down got jail time
Billions of indigenous blood on your hand small Britain .
I'm a bit confused. Grafting requires a viable rootstock to host the implanted cutting. Which i assume was taken from twigs of the felled tree. If the project is successful, the roots are not the same tree, only the trunk and upwards. The roots are another plant. Not that i don't like what they are doing- it's a creative way of making the best of a nasty loss. Maybe if there are lots of new trees they could be planted in a row along the gap. It would still be something special.
I'd rather say that a seed planted would be the same but not a graft.
Hope nature comes back to life.❤
Why?
I read somewhere that the original, the very first, Granny Smith' cooking' apple tree is about to peg it. Have they considered cloning that, I wonder?
Grafting was the technique originally used to create all the apple varieties you see today, the bloke who mastered it never patented his idea and its seen as one of those gold mine opportunities thst got away.. so yes, they are grafting new granny smiths, all the time.
buuuut they cant graft on the stump of it?
It wasn’t “mysterious”.
Felling that tree was an Orcish act!!!
the african reporter is very good
Haha zo overdreven deze drukte om deze boom. Die boom was vanuit twee richtingen niet eens zichtbaar, omdat er een heuvel voor ligt. Als je kijkt naar de omgeving en bedenkt hoeveel bomen al zijn verdwenen.. Plant gewoon een paar nieuwe bomen, en niet zeuren verder. 😊
Some dozy sheep or rabbit’ll probably come along and snip it .
They want to turn that thing into the Whomping Willow tree from Harry Potter.
Now clone something important....
Who told u such clones haven't been made?
@@puraLusa Nobody, they have been made. Exactly why I want something more interesting then a tree 🌳
Clone another lamb. Or finally recreat the mammoth already 🦣
@@First-Last_name read somewhere about that. Don't know if it's actually that good of an idea.
@@puraLusa they successfully cloned an ancient goat, but the lungs gave out shortly after birth. 🐐
They can bring back long extinct animals theoretically. It was shut down due to political and ethical concerns 😟
@@First-Last_name exactly, not a good idea. There is a chance ofcourse that some secret lab was able to clone a human, or that is experimenting on it. All the laws won't stop such from happening.
Why did they dig up the old tree?
The root structure was sound, so it would have regrown.
Instead they dug it up and sold off the wood to "unidentified people associated with the local Council".
Vandalism by 2 immigrants
It hasn't been dug up, the trunk is still there
2 immigrants cut the tree down out of spite for the country
@First-Last_name I doubt it. It was likely one of the farmers of the surrounding areas who was tired of visitors walking/parking on his land
@@THEPete_ it's verifiable, the 2 culprits are in prison now. They did it out of hate and spite
Just let it go
Was it an indigenous Brit or a member of the diversity collective?
A brit with an irrational hate against government so they cut that tree too show that they are unhappy
Sad english.