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Peaches Preceded Humans: Fossil Evidence from SW China.

Scientific reports - 26 Nov 2015

Su Tao, Wilf Peter, Huang Yongjiang, Zhang Shitao, Zhou Zhekun

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Peach (Prunus persica, Rosaceae) is an extremely popular tree fruit worldwide, with an annual production near 20 million tons. Peach is widely thought to have origins in China, but its evolutionary history is largely unknown. The oldest evidence for the peach has been Chinese archaeological records dating to 8000-7000 BP. Here, we report eight fossil peach endocarps from late Pliocene strata of Kunming City,...

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PMID: 26610240
DOI: 10.1038/srep16794
PMCID: PMC4660870

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