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Geneticists trace humble apple's exotic lineage all the way to the Silk Road
It is a lunchbox staple so ubiquitous as to have become mundane. But the apple we know today is the fruit of an extraordinary journey, researchers have revealed. Scientists studying the genetics of the humble apple have unpicked how the cultivated species emerged as traders traveled back and forth along the Silk Road – ancient routes running from the far east to the Mediterranean sea.
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