Browsing Department of Botany by Subject "Papua New Guinea"

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Going Bananas in Papua New Guinea: A preliminary study of starch granule morphotypes in Musaceae fruit

Lentfer, Carol J (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)

Starch granules can be well preserved in a variety of archaeological contexts, for example, in residues and sediments. Therefore, starch analysis has potential to provide another means of tracking the exploitation, dispersal ...
Tracing Domestication and Cultivation of Bananas from Phytoliths: An update from Papua New Guinea

Lentfer, Carol J (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)

There is now good evidence from current banana distributions and genetic analysis that Papua New Guinea and nearby regions have played a key role in the domestication of edible Eumusa and Australimusa bananas. Strong support ...