The discovery of the "Garden of Eden" in Central Asia


	The discovery of the "Garden of Eden" in Central Asia

amgumen

8-22-2009 12:19 PM

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Oxford scientists have used DNA evidence to find the forests where the first domestic eating apple grew - and was consumed.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b435607b-c23d-44d8-babd-5427b641369f/A8AA3C7E-1A5A-4A61-BB91-D35251BDA922/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/EF5681F9-AB26-4884-A258-D5CBCFB213DB" alt="Scientists have used DNA evidence to locate where the first eating apple grew" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html"><P>
The common ancestor of all the Granny Smiths and Cox's Orange Pippins still 
  grows on some of the world's most beautiful but little known mountainsides 
  in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. 
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The discovery of the "Garden of Eden" in Central Asia has triggered 
  efforts to save what remains of the forests, always known for their 
  abundance of wild fruit. Once under assault by Soviet agricultural planners, 
  they are now menaced by the wealth of oil capitalism and as much as 80 per 
  cent has disappeared. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html">Dr Juniper believes the first large, sweet varieties were chosen and spread by 
  bears</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html">and then taken to the 
  West by horses, which were first domesticated in what is now Kazakhstan</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html">But the Soviet Union's agricultural policies claimed most of the forests. 
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Then Stalin murdered Nikolai Vavilov, the great Russian botanist, who first 
  surveyed and collected the forests' variety of wild fruit samples. 
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  Trans-Ili Alatau range had disappeared</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A8AA3C7E-1A5A-4A61-BB91-D35251BDA922/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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