Apple Description, Cultivation, Domestication, Varieties, Uses
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Frontiers Origins of the Apple: The Role of Megafaunal Mutualism in the Domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees
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Apple - Wikipedia
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The Dispersal of Ancient and Modern Apples by Humans and Other Megafauna
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The History of the “Forbidden” Fruit
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KhanLab on X: Fruit size comparison of three cultivated #Apples, Malus sieversii (progenitor of domesticated apples) and three accessions of wild Malus species. #GeneticDiversity Picture credit: khan lab / X
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The domestication and evolutionary ecology of apples - ScienceDirect
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Apple - Wikipedia
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Complete chloroplast genome studies of different apple varieties indicated the origin of modern cultivated apples from Malus sieversii and Malus sylvestris [PeerJ]
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Plants, Free Full-Text
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Origin of the Domesticated Apples