Wild pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. chichagui) in Southeastern Amazonia Pupunha brava (Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. chichagui) no sudeste da Amazônia

Wild pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. chichagui) in Southeastern Amazonia Pupunha brava (Bactris gasipaes Kunth var. chichagui) no sudeste da Amazônia

The geographical distribution and morpho-genetic variation of wild and domesticated populations of a crop species are essential information for identifying a center of origin. The pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) is the only domesticated neotropical palm, whose starchy-oily fruits are subsistence p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: João Batista F. da Silva, Charles R. Clement
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2005-06-01
Series:Acta Botânica Brasílica
Subjects:
expansão de distribuição
morfometria de frutos e sementes
origem do cultivo
pupunha silvestre
botânica econômica
range expansion
fruit and seed morphometrics
crop origin
economic botany
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