The Washington Post: How ancient Amazonians transformed a toxic crop into a diet staple
MSN: Millet mystery: Why a staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens
Millet mystery: Why a staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens
Nature: Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop
Ancient pangenomic origins of noncanonical NLR genes underlying the recent evolutionary rescue of a staple crop
The three staple crops dominating modern diets — corn, rice and wheat — are familiar to Americans. However, another top crop is something of a dark horse: cassava. While nearly unknown in temperate ...
The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...
(via SciShow) Today, humans live on just a few staple crops, like maize, rice, and wheat. But in the early days of agriculture, humans were domesticating foods left and right. Come with us as we ...