http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521123?dopt=Abstract
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"Reassessing domestication events in the Near East: Einkorn and
Triticum urartu.
Heun M, Haldorsen S, Vollan K.
Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA),
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), N-1432 As, Norway.
manfred.heun@...
To reassess domestication events in the Near East, accessions of
Triticum urartu from a well-described sampling were combined with a
representative sample covering the Karacadað Einkorn wheat
domestication. The observed DNA separation between the two wheat
species accounts for the main differentiation, but geographic
variation within T. urartu is evident and so is the domestication
scenario among wild, feral, and domesticated Einkorn. In contrast to
the clear DNA differences, it is difficult to separate living T.
urartu from wild Einkorn based on morphology. With archaeobotanical
material a distinction of carbonized remains of these two wheats is
considered to be impossible. We reviewed the differences concerning
morphology and maturity and combined these observations with
information about archaeological sites in the Near East. In
conclusion, the excavation sites in the middle Euphrates may contain
T. urartu rather than Einkorn wheat and T. urartu may underlie the
reported occurrence of the extinct 2-grained domesticated "Einkorn"
wheat. The first Einkorn wheat domestication sensu stricto seems to
have happened around the Karacadað, as reported earlier. The human
dimension shown by the excavation of Göbekli Tepe can explain why
domesticated phenotypes might have spread quickly.
PMID: 18521123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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