FIU: Student Helps Bring Lost Florida Palm Back From the Brink
July 14, 2026
July 14, 2026
MIAMI, Florida, July 14 -- Florida International University, a component of the public university system in Florida, issued the following news:
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Student helps bring lost Florida palm back from the brink
By Michelle Marie Arean
For more than 40 years, scientists believed the Miami palmetto palm had disappeared from the wild -- until FIU Ph.D. candidate Daniel Tucker helped prove it was still there.
Tucker is uncovering the gene . . .
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Student helps bring lost Florida palm back from the brink
By Michelle Marie Arean
For more than 40 years, scientists believed the Miami palmetto palm had disappeared from the wild -- until FIU Ph.D. candidate Daniel Tucker helped prove it was still there.
Tucker is uncovering the gene . . .