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Citrus fruits’ hometown is in China, a genetic analysis suggests.
An extensive look at wild members of the orange family tree hints that the first species in the Citrus genus arose around 8 million years ago in what’s now south central China, researchers report October 2 in Nature Genetics. The Citrus lineage’s ancestors may have first arrived in Asia on the Indian tectonic plate around 25 million years ago, when it collided with the Asian plate.
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