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

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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.

Source: ScienceDaily.com