Exchanges of economic plants along the land silk road

BMC Plant Biology

Review

Guangyan Wang¹  Qian Chen¹  Ya Yang¹  Yuanwen Duan¹  Yongping Yang¹ 

[1] Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650201, Kunming, China;Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Kunming, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650201, Kunming, China;

关键词: Crop species;    Migration route;    Conflict;    Consistency;    The Land Silk Road;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12870-022-04022-9

 received in 2022-04-27, accepted in 2022-12-21,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroudThe greatest contribution of the Silk Road is to communicate among different countries and nationalities, and promote two-way cultural exchanges between the East and the West. We now have clearer understanding about how material civilization and religious culture of Central Asia and West Asia spread eastward along the Land Silk Road. However, there is controversial about how crops migrate along the Land Silk Road.ResultsWe summarize archaeology, genetics, and genomics data to explore crop migration patterns. Of the 207 crops that were domesticated along the Land Silk Road, 19 for which genomic evidence was available were selected for discussion.ConclusionsThere were conflicting lines of evidence for the domestication of Tibetan barley, mustard, lettuce, buckwheat, and chickpea. The main reasons for the conflicting results may include incomplete early knowledge, record differences in different period, sample sizes, and data analysis techniques. There was strong evidence that Tibetan barley, barley, wheat, and jujube were introduced into China before the existence of the Land Silk Road; and mustard, lettuce, buckwheat, chickpea, alfalfa, walnut, cauliflower, grape, spinach, apple, cucumber, mulberry, and pea spread to China via trade and human migration along the Land Silk Road.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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