Exchanges of economic plants along the land silk road.

ABSTRACT:

Backgroud

The 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.

Results

We 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.

Conclusions

There were conflicting lines of evidence for the domestication of Tibetan barley, mustard, lettuce,

SUBMITTER: Wang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9801618 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature