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  2. Carrot - Wikipedia

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    When first cultivated, carrots were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds rather than their roots. Carrot seeds have been found in Switzerland and Southern Germany dating back to 2000–3000 BC. [17] Some close relatives of the carrot are still grown for their leaves and seeds, such as parsley, coriander (cilantro), fennel, anise, dill and ...

  3. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes, quinoa and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower and sumpweed around 2500 BCE. [11]

  4. Timeline of food - Wikipedia

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    13,000 BCE: Contentious evidence of oldest domesticated rice in Korea. [11] Their 15,000-year age challenges the accepted view that rice cultivation originated in China about 12,000 years ago. [ 11 ] These findings were received by academia with strong skepticism, [ 12 ] and the results and their publicizing has been cited as being driven by a ...

  5. History of plant breeding - Wikipedia

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    The practice is estimated to date back 9,000–11,000 years. Many crops in present-day cultivation are the result of domestication in ancient times, about 5,000 years ago in the Old World and 3,000 years ago in the New World. In the Neolithic period, domestication took a

  6. List of domesticated plants - Wikipedia

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    Places, where crops were initially domesticated, are called centers of origin. This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans . The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical categories which include at least some domesticated individuals.

  7. Researchers discover what makes carrots orange - AOL

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  8. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Domestic pigs had multiple centres of origin in Eurasia, including Europe, East Asia and Southwest Asia, [36] where wild boar were first domesticated about 10,500 years ago. [37] Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 11,000 BC and 9000 BC. [38] Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and India ...

  9. How did a carrot logo become shorthand for the future of ...

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    Tyler, the Creator. In 2014, tensions started to bubble and egos began to clash. Chalk it up to creative differences, except the fact that it hurt more because these were Carrots’ close friends.