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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 103(33): 12223-8, 2006 Aug 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16894156

RESUMO

The status of eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication has recently been called into question by a number of genetic and archaeological studies, which suggest that the region may not have witnessed the independent domestication of local crop plants, but rather may have been on the receiving end of domesticated crop plants introduced from Mexico. Here, I provide a synthesis of the currently available archaeological and genetic evidence from both eastern North America and Mexico regarding the spatial and temporal context of initial domestication of the four plant species identified as potential eastern North American domesticates: marshelder (Iva annua), chenopod (Chenopodium berlandieri), squash (Cucurbita pepo), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Genetic and archaeological evidence provides strong support for the independent domestication of all four of these plant species in the eastern United States and reconfirms the region as one of the world's independent centers of domestication.


Assuntos
Agricultura , Arqueologia , Produtos Agrícolas , Plantas , Asteraceae/genética , Chenopodium/genética , Cucurbita/genética , Helianthus/genética , Humanos , México , América do Norte , Sementes/ultraestrutura
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 102(27): 9438-45, 2005 Jul 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15908505

RESUMO

Reanalysis and direct accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating of the cucurbit assemblage from Coxcatlan Cave provide information on the timing and sequence of the initial appearance of three domesticated plants in the Tehuacán Valley (Puebla, Mexico) and allow reassessment of the overall temporal context of plant domestication in Mexico. Cucurbita pepo is the earliest documented domesticate in the cave, dating to 7,920 calibrated calendrical (cal) years B.P. The bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is dated at 7,200 cal years B.P. Cucurbita argyrosperma does not appear until 2,065 cal years B.P. The earlier identification of Cucurbita moschata specimens is not confirmed. Seventy-one radiocarbon dates, including 23 accelerator mass spectrometry dates on cucurbits, provide ample evidence of postdepositional vertical displacement of organic materials in the western half of Coxcatlan Cave, but they also indicate that the eastern half of the cave was largely undisturbed.


Assuntos
Arqueologia/métodos , Produtos Agrícolas/história , Cucurbitaceae , Ecossistema , Fósseis , Paleontologia/métodos , Radioisótopos de Carbono , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , História Antiga , História Medieval , Espectrometria de Massas , México
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Science ; 302(5648): 1206-8, 2003 Nov 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14615538

RESUMO

Maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild grass, by approximately 6300 years ago in Mexico. After initial domestication, early farmers continued to select for advantageous morphological and biochemical traits in this important crop. However, the timing and sequence of character selection are, thus far, known only for morphological features discernible in corn cobs. We have analyzed three genes involved in the control of plant architecture, storage protein synthesis, and starch production from archaeological maize samples from Mexico and the southwestern United States. The results reveal that the alleles typical of contemporary maize were present in Mexican maize by 4400 years ago. However, as recently as 2000 years ago, allelic selection at one of the genes may not yet have been complete.


Assuntos
Alelos , Evolução Biológica , Produtos Agrícolas/genética , DNA de Plantas/genética , Seleção Genética , Zea mays/genética , Arqueologia , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/fisiologia , Frequência do Gene , Genes de Plantas , Variação Genética , Espectrometria de Massas , México , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/fisiologia , Sudoeste dos Estados Unidos , Fatores de Tempo , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/fisiologia
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