Remains of palms (Palmae) at archaeological sites in the New World: A review

Morcote-Ríos, Gaspar; Bernal, Rodrigo

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“…Nonetheless, this revision now permits phylogenetic hypotheses that can be tested with genetic tools. There is considerable speculation about the origin of the founder event(s) that lead to domesticated peach palm populations, with three hypotheses currently under consideration: (1) a single domestication event in southwestern Amazonia [57], with some morphological [58] and molecular (RAPDs, a dominant marker; [59]) evidence, and the occurrence of two wild types (1,3); (2) a single domestication event in northwestern South America, with archaeological coincidences [60] and the occurrence of a wild type (3); and (3) multiple domestication events in the distribution of two wild types (1,3), with coincidences in common SSR allele frequencies between var. chichagui and var.…”

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Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

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Molecular analyses are providing new elements to decipher the origin, domestication and dispersal of native Amazonian crops in an expanding archaeological context. Solid molecular data are available for manioc (Manihot esculenta), cacao (Theobroma cacao), pineapple (Ananas comosus), peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) and guaraná (Paullinia cupana), while hot peppers (Capsicum spp.), inga (Inga edulis), Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum) are being studied. Emergent patterns include the relationships among domestication, antiquity (terminal Pleistocene to early Holocene), origin in the periphery, ample pre-Columbian dispersal and clear phylogeographic population structure for manioc, pineapple, peach palm and, perhaps, Capsicum peppers. Cacao represents the special case of an Amazonian species possibly brought into domestication in Mesoamerica, but close scrutiny of molecular data suggests that it may also have some incipiently domesticated populations in Amazonia. Another pattern includes the relationships among species with incipiently domesticated populations or very recently domesticated populations, rapid pre-or post-conquest dispersal and lack of phylogeographic population structure, e.g., Brazil nut, cupuassu and guaraná . These patterns contrast the peripheral origin of most species with domesticated OPEN ACCESSDiversity 2010, 2 73 populations with the subsequent concentration of their genetic resources in the center of the basin, along the major white water rivers where high pre-conquest population densities developed. Additional molecular genetic analyses on these and other species will allow better examination of these processes and will enable us to relate them to other historical ecological patterns in Amazonia.

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Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

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“…Though the exact origin of cultivated peach palm remains open to debate, three hypotheses have been proposed : (i) a single domestication event in the southwestern Amazon, as suggested by phylogenetic studies (Ferreira 1999) and RAPD marker-based studies (Rodrigues et al 2004); (ii) a single domestication event in the Colombian inter-Andean valleys and adjacent Pacific lowlands, as suggested by archeological evidence (Morcote-Rios and Bernal 2001); and (iii) multiple independent centers of domestication (Mora-Urpí 1999;Hernández-Ugalde et al 2011).…”

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Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) in tropical Latin America: implications for biodiversity conservation, natural resource management and human nutrition

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Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) is a multi-purpose palm tree native to tropical Latin America, which is predominantly cultivated by smallholders in agroforestry systems. The fruits are rich in starch and contribute importantly to food security and the cash income of farmers who cultivate them. Complex value chains have emerged that link producers to consumers, but irregular product quality and market chain inequalities undermine the economic well-being of producers and retailers. Peach palm is genetically diverse, but screening for traits of commercial and nutritional interest is required to enhance the use of its genetic resources. Alliances between public organizations and private enterprises are needed to realize the potential for processing novel products from peach palm, especially in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors. The diverse challenges that emerge at different stages of production, processing and marketing require participatory research that directly involves stakeholders from the beginning.

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“…Since then several hypotheses have proposed a single origin (Morcote-Rios and Bernal, 2001;Rodrigues et al, 2005;CristoAraújo et al, 2013;Galluzzi et al, 2015) or multiple origins (Mora-Urpí, 1999;Hernández-Ugalde et al, 2011). We will identify a problem in the systematic analysis that has influenced many of these hypotheses and is essential to understanding the origin of domesticated peach palm, then model the ecological niches of the wild populations, and expand our genetic analyses of the origin of the domesticated populations (Cristo-Araújo et al, 2013) to understand their dispersal.…”

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“…chichagui type 3 outside of the distribution of var. chichagui type 1 are problematic, e.g., Mora-Urpí (1999), Morcote-Rios andBernal (2001), andHernández-Ugalde et al (2011), and why secondary domestication events (Galluzzi et al, 2015) outside of the distribution of var. chichagui type 1 are also.…”

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Origin and Dispersal of Domesticated Peach Palm

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Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) is a Neotropical palm domesticated by Native Americans. Its domestication resulted in a set of landraces (var. gasipaes), some with very starchy fruit used for fermentation, others with an equilibrium of starch and oil used as snacks. Which of the three wild types (var. chichagui) was involved and where the domestication process began are unclear, with three hypotheses under discussion: an origin in southwestern Amazonia; or in northwestern South America; or multiple origins. We reevaluate one of the wild types, defining it as the incipient domesticate, and then evaluate these hypotheses using the Brazilian peach palm Core Collection and selected herbaria samples to: (1) model the potential distributions of wild and domesticated populations; (2) identify the probable origin of domestication with a phylogeographic analysis of chloroplast DNA sequences; and (3) determine the dispersal routes after domestication using spatial analysis of genetic diversity based on 17 nuclear microsatellite loci. The two very small-fruited wild types have distinct distributions in the northern Andes region and across southern Amazonia, both under moderately humid climates, while the incipient domesticate, partly sympatric with the southern wild type, is also found along the Equatorial Andes, in a more humid climatic envelope, more similar to that of the domesticated landraces. Two distribution models for Last Glacial Maximum conditions (CCSM4, MIROC) also suggest distinct distributions for the two wild populations. The chloroplast DNA phylogeographic network confirms the area of sympatry of the incipient domesticate and the southern wild type in southwestern Amazonia as the origin of domestication. The spatial patterns of genetic diversity confirm the proposal of two dispersals, one along the Ucayali River, into western Amazonia, northwestern South America and finally Central America; the other along the Madeira River into central and then eastern Amazonia. The first dispersal resulted in very starchy fruit for fermentation, while the second may have been later and resulted in snack fruits. Further explorations of southwestern Amazonia are essential for more precise identification of the earliest events, both with new archeological methods and genetic analyses with larger samples.

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Remains of palms (Palmae) at archaeological sites in the New World: A review

Cited by 110 publications

References 26 publications

Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) in tropical Latin America: implications for biodiversity conservation, natural resource management and human nutrition

Origin and Dispersal of Domesticated Peach Palm

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