- Titel
- Ancient Artworks and Crocus Genetics Both Support Saffron’s Origin in Early Greece
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-906252
- Quellenangabe
- Frontiers in plant science
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Jahrgang: 13
E-ISSN: 1664-462X
Artikelnummer: 834416 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2022
- Abstract (EN)
- Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is a male-sterile, triploid flower crop, and source of the spice and colorant saffron. For over three millennia, it was cultivated across the Mediterranean, including ancient Greece, Persia, and other cultures, later spreading all over the world. Despite saffron crocus’ early omnipresence, its origin has been the matter of a century-old debate, in terms of area and time as well as parental species contribution. While remnants of the ancient arts, crafts, and texts still provide hints on its origin, modern genetics has the potential to efficiently follow these leads, thus shedding light on new possible lines of descent. In this review, we follow ancient arts and recent genetics to trace the evolutionary origin of saffron crocus. We focus on the place and time of saffron domestication and cultivation, and address its presumed autopolyploid origin involving cytotypes of wild Crocus cartwrightianus. Both ancient arts from Greece, Iran, and Mesopotamia as well as recent cytogenetic and comparative next-generation sequencing approaches point to saffron’s emergence and domestication in ancient Greece, showing how both disciplines converge in tracing its origin.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zum Artikel der zuerst in der Zeitschrift „Frontiers in plant science” bei Frontiers Media erschienen ist.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.834416 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Safran, Crocus sativus, ArtGenetics, Genom, Zytogenetik, historische Kunst, minoische Fresken
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- saffron, Crocus sativus, ArtGenetics, Genome, cytogenetics, historical art, Minoan frescoes
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 570
- Verlag
- Frontiers Media, Lausanne
- Förder- / Projektangaben
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Identische Genome, doch verschiedene Eigenschaften: Der Safrankrokus als Modell für die Epigenetik von Qualitätsmerkmalen und Umweltanpassungen
ID: 433081887 - Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-906252
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 05.04.2024
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY 4.0