14,000-year-old seeds indicate the Levantine origin of the lost progenitor of faba bean.
Sci Rep
; 6: 37399, 2016 11 23.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27876767
ABSTRACT
The understanding of crop domestication is dependent on tracking the original geographical distribution of wild relatives. The faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is economically important in many countries around the world; nevertheless, its origin has been debated because its ancestor could not be securely identified. Recent investigations in the site of el-Wad (Mount Carmel, Israel), provide the first and, so far, only remains of the lost ancestor of faba bean. X-ray CT scan analysis of the faba beans provides the first set of measurements of the biometry of this species before its domestication. The presence of wild specimens in Mount Carmel, 14,000 years ago, supports that the wild variety grew nearby in the Lower Galilee where the first domestication was documented for Neolithic farmers 10,200 years ago.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Seeds
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Crops, Agricultural
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Vicia faba
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Domestication
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Sci Rep
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Israel