Editing Quinoa (section)

== Distribution ==
''Chenopodium quinoa'' is believed to have been domesticated in the Peruvian Andes from wild or weed populations of the same species.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Pickersgill, Barbara |author-link=Barbara Pickersgill |date=31 August 2007 |title=Domestication of plants in the Americas: Insights from Mendelian and molecular genetics |url=http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mcm193v1 |url-status=dead |journal=Annals of Botany |volume=100 |issue=5 |pages=925–940 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcm193 |pmc=2759216 |pmid=17766847 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021154818/http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mcm193v1 |archive-date=21 October 2007}}</ref> There are non-cultivated quinoa plants (''Chenopodium quinoa'' var. ''melanospermum'') that grow in the area it is cultivated; these may either be related to wild predecessors, or they could be descendants of cultivated plants.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Heiser CB Jr, Nelson DC |date=September 1974 |title=On the origin of the cultivated Chenopods (''Chenopodium'') |journal=Genetics |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=503–505 |doi=10.1093/genetics/78.1.503 |pmc=1213209 |pmid=4442716}}</ref>

[[File:Red quinoa.png|thumb|Red quinoa, cooked]]
[[File:Landscape with Chenopodium quinoa Cachilaya Bolivia Lake Titicaca.jpg|thumb|''Chenopodium quinoa'' near Cachilaya, [[Lake Titicaca]], Bolivia]]