Budge provided genuine 3,000-year-old tomb grains of wheat to the director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, William Thiselton-Dyer to plant under controlled conditions. The test resulted in none germinating.
Budge shared genuine 3,000-year-old wheat grains from an ancient tomb with the Kew Gardens' chief, William Thiselton-Dyer, in order to study their viability under laboratory conditions. However, none of the seeds germinated.