This page is from the book, God's Banquet Table I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The plant goes to great effort in producing and protecting its seed, filling each genetic packet with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes.
Seeds can germinate after two hundred years if stored in a favorable condition.
Amazingly, dormant seeds are alive but the respiration is so slow that it is immeasurable. The oldest seeds ever to germinate were found in a lemming burrow, deeply buried and permanently frozen in central Yukon, dated to be thousands of years old. When discovered and taken back to the laboratory, the seeds germinated, producing healthy plants. God has created the seed with an ability to store the potential for life and genetic information to guide its course. Waiting for favorable growth conditions, a tiny seed will hold out against time in its culminating effort to ensure the continuation of the species.