Crop domestication in the upper Madeira River basin

Abstract Most native Amazonian crops were domesticated in the periphery of the basin. The upper Madeira River basin is an important part of this periphery where several important crops were domesticated and others are suspected to have been domesticated or arrived early. Some of these crops have been reasonably well studied, such as manioc, peanut, peach palm, coca and tobacco, while others are not as well known, such as the hot peppers Capsicum baccatum and C. frutescens, and still others need confirmation, such as cocoyam and annatto. We review the information available for manioc, peach palm, Capsicum, peanut, annatto and cocoyam. The state-of-the-art for Capsicum frutescens, annatto and cocoyam is insufficient to conclude definitively that they were domesticated in the upper Madeira, while all the others have at least one of their origins or centers of diversity in the upper Madeira.

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Main Authors:	Clement,Charles Roland, Rodrigues,Doriane Picanço, Alves-Pereira,Alessandro, Mühlen,Gilda Santos, Cristo-Araújo,Michelly de, Moreira,Priscila Ambrósio, Lins,Juliana, Reis,Vanessa Maciel
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	MCTI/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2016
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222016000100193
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