{"id":514227,"date":"2024-07-10T15:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=514227"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:55:05","slug":"amazonian-fruit-was-domesticated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/amazonian-fruit-was-domesticated\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazonian fruit was domesticated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_514232\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-514232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800-250x267.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800-700x748.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-cupuacu-2024-01-site-800-120x128.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Kristof Zyskowski &amp; Yulia Bereshpolova \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/a> Cupua\u00e7u, selectively bred by native peoples 8,000 years ago<span class=\"media-credits\">Kristof Zyskowski & Yulia Bereshpolova \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today it is possible to enjoy cupua\u00e7u ice cream in S\u00e3o Paulo, far from the Amazon where the fruits hang from trees that can reach 20 meters in height (<em>Theobroma grandiflorum<\/em>), all thanks to a journey that appears to have begun around 8,000 years ago. \u201cIndigenous communities have cultivated plants for millennia, and our study reveals that the cupua\u00e7u, previously considered a wild species, is in fact domesticated from a wild relative, the cupu\u00ed,\u201d says Jos\u00e9 Rubens Pirani, a botanist from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. The finding was the result of a doctorate by Matheus Colli-Silva, who is now a researcher at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, UK, and was supervised by Pirani. The pulp and seed of the cupu\u00ed (<em>T. subincanum<\/em>) are similar to cupua\u00e7u, although the fruit is smaller. Over the last two centuries, the cupu\u00ed has undergone a second process of domestication that has expanded its distribution from the Upper\/Middle Rio Negro to the rest of Amazonia. The alteration of the plant for human use began before cocoa\u2014another related species\u2014went through the same process. The study suggests that the pulp of <em>T. cacao <\/em>was popular among Indigenous peoples long before its seeds attracted international interest to make chocolate, at which time the plant was subject to selective breeding for cultivation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-023-01066-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Communications Earth &amp; Environment<\/em><\/a>, November 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Native people of the Amazon domesticated cupua\u00e7u 8,000 years ago ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[224,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-514227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-ecology","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525007,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514227\/revisions\/525007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514227"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=514227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}