A Systematic Approach to Species–Level Identification of Chile Pepper (Capsicum spp.) Seeds: Establishing the Groundwork for Tracking the Domestication and Movement of Chile Peppers through the Americas and Beyond

Economic Botany

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 316-336

  Chiou, Katherine L ^a   Hastorf, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Capsicum; Chile peppers; Ethnobotany; Seed identification; Seed morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908470628     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: 18749364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-014-9279-2     Document Type: Article

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