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Fossil or Non-Fossil: A Case Study in the Archaeological Wheat

Diego Rivera, P Pablo Ferrer-Gallego, Concepción Obón, Francisco Alcaraz, Emilio Laguna, Nikolay P Goncharov, Mordechai Kislev

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Article in Genes, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Diego RiveraDepartamento Biología Vegetal, Facultad Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6889-714X
P Pablo Ferrer-GallegoServicio de Vida Silvestre y Red Natura 2000, Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal (CIEF), Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià 114, Quart de Poblet, 46930 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7595-9302
Concepción ObónCIAGRO, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Orihuela, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Ctra. Beniel, Km 3,2, 03312 Orihuela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0244-601X
Francisco AlcarazDepartamento Biología Vegetal, Facultad Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3254-2691
Emilio LagunaServicio de Vida Silvestre y Red Natura 2000, Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal (CIEF), Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià 114, Quart de Poblet, 46930 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9674-2767
Nikolay P GoncharovInstitute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
Mordechai KislevThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesThe archaeobotanical taxon "

methodsWe conducted a comprehensive nomenclatural review to evaluate the taxonomic validity of

resultsOur analysis demonstrated that archaeobotanical materials do not qualify as fossils and led to the validation of the taxon at a subspecific rank as a non-fossil entity:

conclusionsThis study resolves the longstanding nomenclatural uncertainty surrounding this archaeologically significant wheat taxon, providing a valid taxonomic designation that reflects its biological and historical importance while adhering to current botanical nomenclature standards.

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FossilsTriticumArchaeologyPhylogenyTetraploidyarchaeobotanycultivated wheat originsfossilholotypenomenclaturenon-fossilpalaeoethnobotanytaxonomy

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PMID40149426
PMCPMC11942341

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