A research group of Associate Professor Yoshihisa Suyama at Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University has revealed that boreal conifer trees in Scandinavia Peninsula have survived since the last ice age, by analyzing ancient DNA from lake sediments and plant residues, in international collaboration with Uppsala University and University of Copenhagen, etc. This result has attracted attention as a research revolutionizing common conventional wisdom about plant distribution from the ice age, and has published in Science on March 2, 2012.

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