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"Seen from the air, Channel Country resembles a vibrant and vast tapestry, with
a network of waterways crisscrossing the land. Spread across more than 280,000
square kilometres in outback Australia, it is one of the world’s last
free-flowing desert river systems.
In the heart of Channel Country, in southwest Queensland, live the Mithaka
people whose ancestors over at least the past 3,000 years played a key role in
the development of a transcontinental trade and exchange system. Plants were a
central part of the economy of Mithaka people, with at least 200 different
species used for food, medicine, materials and ceremonial purposes.
In a new paper published in
Nature Communications, we reveal important new
information about the genetic complexity of one particular food source from the
region: channel millet (
Echinochloa turneriana).
The traits we found are often associated with domestication."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
