Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

Scientists uncover how humans cultivated avocado in ancient Honduras, thousands of years before staple crops like maize and ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Forest department officials from Thoothukudi district have sent hair and tissue samples of pigs to Advanced ...

Before settlers brought their dogs to North America, another lineage of canines accompanied farming communities throughout ...

Texas A&M anthropologist Dr. Heather B. Thakar uncovers the 11,000-year history of avocado domestication at El Gigante Rockshelter, revealing how ancient Hondurans shaped the evolution of this ...

Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...

The elucidation of the genome from the Palomero toluqueño maize landrace revealed heavy metal effects during domestication (Vielle-Calzada et al., 2009). Differences concordant with its ancient origin ...

Inside Nigeria’s informal workforce, women daily defy odds, ignore health concerns and physical constraints to support their ...

eLife Assessment This study presents a valuable investigation into how heavy metal stress may have influenced the domestication of maize from its wild ancestor, teosinte parviglumis, focusing on ...

Gorkha, June 8 -- Chhewang Lama has lost a lot of maize from her field over the past decade due to the frequent intrusion of wild animals. "Every year we face the same issue," said Chhewang, a ...