Fresh Study Names New Cradle of Human Civilisation
20:52 06.05.2019
Having started with pearl millets last year, the same research group has continued their exciting journey of examining the roots of plant domestication on the African continent, but this time looking into the genomes of a wealth of wild and cultivated yams, an African staple vegetable.
Having investigated the domestication of African yams, a key crop in early African agriculture by means of whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, an international team of researchers has come to the conclusion that West Africa is where plant cultivation in general originated from.
The findings, with the respective abstract published on 1 May in the magazine Science Advances, infer that African yam agriculture started expanding in the Niger River basin, much like that of African rice and pearl millets studied at length in earlier research.
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