Sentence examples for centres of origin from inspiring English sources
Most of the world's major food crops are not native to their major production zones; rather, they originated in a few distinct "centres of origin" and were transferred to new production areas through migration and trade.
What is more of an issue is if you take GM crops to centres of origin like Ethiopia.
Asynchronous dispersal from centres of origin in Eurasia into the Nearctic resulted in gradients in parasite diversity in the carnivoran, lagomorph, rodent and artiodactyl assemblages we reviewed.
The beginnings of farming, 10,000 or more years ago, have often been discussed in relation to a few discrete "centres of origin", for example the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, and Central America.
As few as four of these centres of origin have probably provided the great majority of the most useful plants and animals: (1) tropical southeastern Asia rice, chickens; (2) temperate southwestern Asia wheat, sheep, goats, asses; (3) subtropical or temperate Mexico and Central America corn (maize), turkeys; and (4) the central Andes of South America potatoes, guinea pigs, llamas.
The centres of origin of the respective plants are amongst the regions of particular concern.
But does this conjectural migration from a hypothetical centre of origin still fit the facts?
To determine methodological quality of therapy articles published in Cirugía Española and to study its association with the publication year, the centre of origin and subjects.
However, genomic research shows that T. cacao's greatest diversity is in the upper Amazon region of northwest South America, pointing to this region as its centre of origin.
"It also supports the idea that the Tibetan plateau was, and remains, an important biogeographic region for large mammals and is the centre of origin for many important groups.
They also suggest that each lineage had contrasting histories; Rivulus sp. is restricted to a relatively small geographic area whereas R. cylindraceus has dispersed considerably and more than once from its centre of origin, probably facilitated by sea level fluctuations.
