Banana is a very popular fruit in the world market and is consumed as staple food in many
countries. It is grown worldwide and constitutes the fifth most important agricultural food crop …

It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants
and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and …

The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

Recent increases in archaeobotanical evidence offer insights into the processes of plant
domestication and agricultural origins, which evolved in parallel in several world regions …

Original multidisciplinary research hereby clarifies the complex geodomestication pathways
that generated the vast range of banana cultivars (cvs). Genetic analyses identify the wild …

Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the world's most important fruits. In 2011, 145 million metric
tons, worth an estimated $44 billion, were produced in over 130 countries. Fusarium wilt …

As rates of deforestation continue to rise in many parts of the tropics, the international
conservation community is faced with the challenge of finding approaches which can reduce …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Abstract Background Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently
provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over …