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Domestication of the Amazonian fruit tree cupuaçu may have stretched over the past 8000 years - Communications Earth & Environment
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Amazonia, one of the largest and most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, is a significant yet less-known arena for ancient plant domestication. Here, we traced the origins of cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), an Amazonian tree crop closely related to cacao (T. cacao), cherished for its flavorful seed-pulp, by employing an extensive genomic analysis based on data from four sites in Brazil. Our results indicate that cupuaçu is a domesticated variant of its wild relative, cupuí (T.
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