The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon
LANAUD, Claire
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
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Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
LANAUD, Claire
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
VIOT, Christopher
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
FOUET, Olivier
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
ARGOUT, Xavier
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
VIGNES, Hélène
Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
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Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales [UMR AGAP]
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Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2018, vol. 2, n° 12, p. 1879-1888
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Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop, yet studies of its domestication history and early uses are limited. Traditionally, cacao is thought to have been first domesticated in Mesoamerica. However, genomic ...Leer más >
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop, yet studies of its domestication history and early uses are limited. Traditionally, cacao is thought to have been first domesticated in Mesoamerica. However, genomic research shows that T. cacao’s greatest diversity is in the upper Amazon region of northwest South America, pointing to this region as its centre of origin. Here, we report cacao use identified by three independent lines of archaeological evidence—cacao starch grains, absorbed theobromine residues and ancient DNA—dating from approximately 5,300 years ago recovered from the Santa Ana-La Florida (SALF) site in southeast Ecuador. To our knowledge, these findings constitute the earliest evidence of T. cacao use in the Americas and the first unequivocal archaeological example of its pre-Columbian use in South America. They also reveal the upper Amazon region as the oldest centre of cacao domestication yet identified.< Leer menos
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Agricultural Sciences for sustainable Development - ANR-10-LABX-0001
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