Curated category
Plant models
- RiceIn the Yangtze River valley, people began cultivating rice between 13,500 and 8,200 years ago. This ancient process created a single domestication event for…
- MaizeIn the Balsas River valley of southwestern Mexico, a short bushy plant called teosinte grew wild. Its kernels fell off the cob naturally when ripe.
- PeaCarl Linnaeus assigned the scientific name Pisum sativum to this species in 1753. The Latin phrase translates directly to cultivated pea.