How the Ginkgo biloba achieves near-immortality
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/how-ginkgo-biloba-achieves-near-immortality
New research reveals how Ginkgo biloba trees can grow for thousands of years.
Long-lived humans having nothing on trees. Some, like the Ginkgo biloba, can live more than 3000 years. Now, in the most comprehensive plant aging study to date, researchers have revealed the molecular mechanisms that allow the ginkgo—and perhaps other trees—to survive so long.