Cactus Genes Connect Modern Mexico To Its Prehistoric Past

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Cactus Genes Connect Modern Mexico to Its Prehistoric Past

 

 

ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — In prehistoric times farmers across the world domesticated wild plants to create an agricultural revolution. As a result the ancestral plants have been lost, causing problems for anyone studying the domestication process of modern-day varieties, but that might change. A team led by Fabiola Parra at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has managed to trace a domesticated cactus, the Gray Ghost Organ Pipe (Stenocereus pruinosus) to its living ancestor that can still be found in the Tehuacán Valley in Mexico.

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823113420.htm