Editing Breadfruit (section)

== Taxonomy ==
{{See also|Artocarpus camansi|Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia}}

According to [[DNA fingerprinting]] studies, the seeded wild ancestor of breadfruit is the breadnut (''A.&nbsp;camansi''), which is native to [[New Guinea]], the [[Maluku Islands]], and the [[Philippines]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2025|reason=Might be in recently split 3rd par., but needs to be specified.}}

''A. camansi'' was domesticated and [[selectively bred]] in Polynesia, giving rise to the mostly seedless ''A.&nbsp;altilis''. Micronesian breadfruit also show evidence of [[Hybridisation (biology)|hybridization]] with the native ''[[Artocarpus mariannensis|A. mariannensis]]'', while most Polynesian and Melanesian cultivars do not. This indicates that Micronesia was initially colonized separately from Polynesia and Melanesia through two different migration events, later coinciding in eastern Micronesia.<ref name="Matisoo-Smith2015" /><ref name="zerega">{{cite journal |author1=Zerega, N. J. C. |author2=Ragone, D. |author3=Motley, T.J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2004 |title=The complex origins of breadfruit (''Artocarpus altilis'', Moraceae): Implications for human migrations in Oceania |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=91 |issue=5 |pages=760–766 |doi=10.3732/ajb.91.5.760 |pmid=21653430}}</ref><ref name="Diane Ragone- Breadfruit" /><ref name="ragone2" /><ref name="ntbg" /><ref name="kew" />

Breadfruit was one of the [[canoe plants]] spread by [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] voyagers around 3,000 years ago into [[Micronesia]], [[Melanesia]], and [[Polynesia]], where it was not native.<ref name="Matisoo-Smith2015" /><ref name="zerega" /><ref name="Diane Ragone- Breadfruit" /><ref name="ragone2" />