Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication

Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequen...

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Autores principales: Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A, Tusso, Sergio, Przelomska, Natalia A S, Wu, Shan, Ryan, Philippa, Nesbitt, Mark, Silber, Martina V, Preick, Michaela, Fei, Zhangjun, Hofreiter, Michael, Chomicki, Guillaume, Renner, Susanne S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
Materias:
Discoveries
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35907246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac168

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