Origins and Patterns of Vanilla Cultivation in Tropical America (1500–1900): No Support for an Independent Domestication of Vanilla in South America

Lubinsky, Pesach; Romero‐González, Gustavo A.; Heredia, Sylvia M.; Zabel, Stephanie

doi:10.1002/9781444329353.ch8

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“…Native to Mesoamerican tropical forests, V. planifolia has been vegetatively propagated and cultivated in the Eastern coast of Mexico since the mid eighteenth century in response to the growing demand for vanilla pods in Europe. Vanilla cuttings were subsequently transferred into European botanical gardens, then reached the Indian Ocean region where no natural pollinator was present (Bory et al 2008b;Lubinsky et al 2010). The discovery in 1841 of an easy manual pollination technique by Edmond Albius in Reunion Island has led to the fast diffusion of V. planifolia into the south west Indian ocean region (Madagascar, Reunion Island, Comoros).…”

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A genome-wide assessment of the genetic diversity, evolution and relationships with allied species of the clonally propagated crop Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews

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Genet Resour Crop Evol

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The Vanilla genus is a complex taxonomic group characterized by a vegetative reproduction mode combined with intra- and inter-specific hybridizations, and polyploidy events. These factors strongly impact the diversification of the genus and complicate the delimitation of taxa. Among the hundred Vanilla species, Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews and Vanilla × tahitensis J. W. Moore are the main cultivated aromatic species. We applied Genotyping-by-Sequencing to explore the genetic diversity of these two cultivated vanilla species, seven closely related species and nineteen interspecific hybrids. The inter- and intra-specific relationships of 133 vanilla accessions were examined based on 2004 filtered SNPs. Our results showed a strong genetic structuring between the nine species studied, with wild species showing much lower heterozygosity levels than cultivated ones. Moreover, using Bayesian clustering analyses, the kinship of several hybrids could be verified. We evidenced in particular that Vanilla sotoarenasii and Vanilla odorata C.Presl may be the parental species of V. x tahitensis. The analysis of 1129 SNPs for 84 V. planifolia accessions showed a clear genetic demarcation between the vegetatively propagated traditional vanilla cultivars compared to the accessions derived from sexual reproduction, and a higher genetic diversity and lower heterozygosity of the latter (Ho = 0.206) compared to the former (Ho = 0.362). Our data are consistent with a single-step domestication for V. planifolia in accordance with the recent history of its cultivation. It also opens avenues to breed new V. planifolia varieties adapted to biotic and abiotic constraints and to reduce mutational load induced by clonal propagation.

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A genome-wide assessment of the genetic diversity, evolution and relationships with allied species of the clonally propagated crop Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews

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“…The earliest documented cultivation of vanilla beans dates back to the Totonac empire (Mexico), where naturally pollinated beans were traded for other products. After the Spanish conquest, however, some vegetative Vanilla planifolia cuttings were taken from its native regions in Mesoamerica to several European colonies in the Indian Ocean (Lubinsky et al, 2008(Lubinsky et al, , 2010. It was here that vanilla cultivation resulted in a real boom thanks to the discovery of a manual pollination technique in 1841 (Havkin-Frenkel and Belanger, 2018).…”

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Exploring farmer preferences towards innovations in the vanilla supply chain

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Some of the history of vanilla follows the history of chocolate because vanilla was gathered from the wild for use in flavoring chocolate beverages in the pre-Columbian Maya and Aztec cultures of southeastern Mexico and Central America. However, the Totonac people of Papantla in north-central Veracruz (Mexico) were probably the first group to cultivate V. planifolia (Lubinsky et al, 2011). The species V. planifolia has an interesting history of dispersal to other tropical regions between 27° N and 27° S latitudes (Lubinsky et al, 2008a).…”

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