Multiple lines of evidence for the origin of domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6165-6170

  Kraft, Kraig H ^a,g   Brown, Cecil H ^b   Nabhan, Gary P ^c   Luedeling, Eike ^d   De Jesús Luna Ruiz, José ^e   D'Eeckenbrugge, Geo Coppens ^f   Hijmans, Robert J ^a   Gepts, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Anthropology Northern Illinois University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^e Centro de Ciencias Agropecuarias Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Aguascalientes   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g The Committee on Sustainability Assessment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; DNA MARKER; DOMESTICATED PLANT; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOLOCENE; LINGUISTICS; MEXICO; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAPSICUM; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84899648415     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308933111     Document Type: Article

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