Hands Holding Common Bean Varieties above Globe with American Continents Facing Camera (IMAGE)

DOE/Joint Genome Institute

Hands Holding Common Bean Varieties above Globe with American Continents Facing Camera

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The common bean ranks as the 10th most cultivated food crop worldwide. Though it is thought to have originated in Mexico, the common bean was domesticated separately at two different geographic locations in Mesoamerica and the Andes, diverging from a common ancestral wild population more than 100,000 years ago.

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Roy Kaltschmidt, LBNL

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