{"id":299138,"date":"2017-04-10T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d70e323535e57ebc1c93980558a36d81"},"modified":"2017-04-10T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:54:09","slug":"seeds-from-a-site-in-northern-israel-are-the-ancestors-of-todays-fava-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=299138","title":{"rendered":"Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today&#8217;s fava beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all food crops, the faba, or fava, bean &#8211; a nutritious part of many the diet of many cultures diets &#8211; had a wild ancestor. Wild faba is presumed to be extinct, but Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now identified 14,000-year-old remains of seeds that offer important clues as to the time and place that this plant grew naturally. Understanding the ecology of the wild plants&#8217; environment and the evolution they underwent in the course of domestication is crucial to improving the biodiversity of the modern crop. The findings were reported in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all food crops, the faba, or fava, bean &#8211; a nutritious part of many the diet of many cultures diets &#8211; had a wild ancestor. Wild faba is presumed to be extinct, but Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now identified 14,000-year-old remai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299139,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299138\/revisions\/299139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}