Title |
Morphological variation, management and domestication of ‘maguey alto’ (Agave inaequidens) and ‘maguey manso’ (A. hookeri) in Michoacán, México
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Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-10-66 |
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Authors |
Carmen Julia Figueredo, Alejandro Casas, Patricia Colunga-GarcíaMarín, Jafet M Nassar, Antonio González-Rodríguez |
Abstract |
Agave inaequidens and A. hookeri are anciently used species for producing the fermented beverage 'pulque', food and fiber in central Mexico. A. inaequidens is wild and cultivated and A. hookeri only cultivated, A. inaequidens being its putative wild relative. We analysed purposes and mechanisms of artificial selection and phenotypic divergences between wild and managed populations of A. inaequidens and between them and A. hookeri, hypothesizing phenotypic divergence between wild and domesticated populations of A. inaequidens in characters associated to domestication, and that A. hookeri would be phenotypically similar to cultivated A. inaequidens. |
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