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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey: DNA, historical reports, morphological data connect breadfruit to its history

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In 1793, Capt. William Bligh docked the HMS Providence in Kingstown in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. His goal was to introduce the long-lived trees with their carbohydrate-rich fruits to cheaply feed Britain's slaves. Researchers traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Bligh's voyage.

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey

In 1793, Capt. William Bligh docked the HMS Providence in Kingstown in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, with cargo filled with several hundred sapling breadfruit trees. His goal was singular: To introduce the long-lived trees with their carbohydrate-rich fruits to cheaply feed Britain's slaves, who labored on the islands' sugar plantations.

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey: DNA, historical reports, morphological data connect breadfruit to its history

Exactly 230 years after Capt. William Bligh's voyage on the HMS Providence, a plant biology team has traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Bligh's voyage. Three generation of women solved the centuries-old mystery.

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

A plant biology team has, for the first time, traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Captain William Bligh’s 1793 voyage.

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DNA, historical reports, morphological data connect breadfruit to its history.

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey

Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey: DNA, historical reports, morphological data connect breadfruit to its history

Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey: DNA, historical reports, morphological data connect breadfruit to its history

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

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