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Chenopodium quinoa is believed to have been domesticated in the Peruvian Andes from wild or weed populations of the same species. [26] There are non-cultivated quinoa plants (Chenopodium quinoa var. melanospermum) that grow in the area it is cultivated; these may either be related to wild predecessors, or they could be descendants of cultivated ...
Below is a non-exhaustive list of neglected and underutilised species. It is important to recognise the potential negative impact on communities that historically use so-called underutilised crops. For example, as quinoa came into international focus, its price in South America surged by 600%, pushing the grain outside the reach of traditional ...
Quinoa, a common pseudocereal. A pseudocereal or pseudograin is one of any non-grasses that are used in much the same way as cereals (true cereals are grasses).Pseudocereals can be further distinguished from other non-cereal staple crops (such as potatoes) by their being processed like a cereal: their seed can be ground into flour and otherwise used as a cereal.
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize. Edible grains from other plant families, such as buckwheat and quinoa, are pseudocereals.
Wild cereals and other wild grasses in northern Israel. Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia, as opposed to more widespread cereals such as corn, rice and modern varieties of wheat, which are the product of thousands of years of selective breeding.
Wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides), a CWR of cultivated wheats (Triticum spp), can be found in northern Israel. Two conservationists collecting indigenous knowledge on cultural practices that favour CWR populations, from a farmer near Fes, Morocco. A crop wild relative (CWR) is a wild plant closely related to a domesticated plant.
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This map shows the sites of domestication for a number of crop plants. Places, where crops were initially domesticated, are called centers of origin.. This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans.