Andrea Seelenfreund

TL;DR: A tight genealogical link is demonstrated between paper mulberry populations in South China and North Taiwan, and South Taiwan and Remote Oceania by way of Sulawesi and New Guinea, presenting the first study of a commensal plant species transported to Polynesia whose phylogeographic structure concurs with expectations of the “out of Taiwan” hypothesis of Austronesian expansion.

TL;DR: In this article, the Laguna del Maule source area was exploited from at least 50 A.D. onward and the material was distributed to sites located more than 200 km from the source.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used non-coding internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA and inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) on 79 samples of Broussonetia papyrifera from different islands of Remote Oceania, and South East Asia and East Asia.

TL;DR: Most paper mulberry plants now present in the Pacific appear to be descended from female clones introduced prehistorically, with the presence of male and female plants in Near and Remote Oceania thought to reflect a dual origin.

TL;DR: Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) was one of the most widely distributed crop species in prehistoric Oceania, occurring from continental East Asia to the Polynesian islands as mentioned in this paper.