Scientists rewrite humble watermelons origins

The classic summer place for a picnic and barbecue is a good and cold watermelon. The researchers have published a new study in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” who rewrites the origins of the pet watermelon we know and love today. Researchers use DNA from the Grinehouse factory that represents all species and hundreds of watermelon varieties.

The researchers found that watermelons were likely to come from the ancestors of wild plants in Northeast Africa. Scientists about the project said their studies corrected the muddy old mistakes that paralyze watermelon into the same category as the citron of South Africa Melon. New research found that the shape of the Sudanese with non-bitter vaginal discharge pulp known as Kordofan Melon is the closest relative of the pet watermelon.

Interestingly, the new genetic research match that was just interpreted by Egypt’s tomb painting which showed watermelons might have been consumed in the Nile valley as a dessert 4000 years ago. Professor Susanne S. Renner said that based on DNA, the team found watermelon as we know now with sweet sweet porridge and can usually be eaten raw genetically closest to wild forms in West Africa and Northeast Africa.

Renner said that today’s watermelon came from small genetic stock and was very susceptible to diseases and insects. The researchers said they had found variations in three gene resistance between melon and pet watermelon. These findings indicate that farmers have the potential to use this and other insights from the genome to potentially improve health and longevity of watermelon.

Renner believes that some of the most important information found in this study relates to people’s mobility and cultural connections against the fruit. Renner said that Egypt’s tomb painting convinced him that the Egyptians took cold watermelon porridge. He said otherwise, why they put the big fruits on a flat tray next to wine and other sweet fruit.