洛厄尔·伍德斯托克是美国农业研究局的一位生理学家,他在沙特阿拉伯待了两年,于1978年回到贝尔茨维尔,发现以前做冻干试验遗留下的所有洋葱种子,仍能发芽生长,而一半以上的气干种子,则不能发芽生长。伍德斯托克在室温下把这些冻干的种子保存了 Lowell Woodstock, a physicist at the Bureau of Agricultural Research, spent two years in Saudi Arabia before returning to Beltsville in 1978 to find all the onion seeds that had previously been left in the freeze-dried test, Still able to germinate and grow, while more than half of air-dried seeds, you can not germinate and grow. Woodstock preserved the lyophilized seeds at room temperature