Editing Apricot (section)

==== ''Prunus armeniaca'' ====
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The most commonly cultivated apricot ''P. armeniaca'' was known in [[Armenia]] during ancient times, and has been cultivated there for so long that it was previously thought to have originated there, hence the epithet of its scientific name.<ref name="ishs121_36">{{cite web |url=http://www.actahort.org/books/121/121_36.htm |title=VII Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline |publisher=International Society for Horticultural Science |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-date=2003-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030521122201/http://www.actahort.org/books/121/121_36.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> However, this is not supported by genetic studies, which instead confirm the hypothesis proposed by Nikolai Vavilov that domestication of ''P. armeniaca'' occurred in [[Central Asia]] and [[China]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Shuo|last2=Cornille|first2=Amandine|last3=Decroocq|first3=Stéphane|last4=Tricon|first4=David|last5=Chague|first5=Aurélie|last6=Eyquard|first6=Jean-Philippe|last7=Liu|first7=Wei-Sheng|last8=Giraud|first8=Tatiana|last9=Decroocq|first9=Véronique|date=2019|title=The complex evolutionary history of apricots: Species divergence, gene flow and multiple domestication events|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15296|journal=Molecular Ecology|language=en|volume=28|issue=24|pages=5299–5314|doi=10.1111/mec.15296|pmid=31677192|bibcode=2019MolEc..28.5299L |s2cid=207833328|issn=1365-294X|access-date=2021-02-17|archive-date=2020-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623104145/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15296|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Bourguiba|first1=Hedia|last2=Scotti|first2=Ivan|last3=Sauvage|first3=Christopher|last4=Zhebentyayeva|first4=Tetyana|last5=Ledbetter|first5=Craig|last6=Krška|first6=Boris|last7=Remay|first7=Arnaud|last8=D’Onofrio|first8=Claudio|last9=Iketani|first9=Hiroyuki|last10=Christen|first10=Danilo|last11=Krichen|first11=Lamia|date=2020|title=Genetic structure of a worldwide germplasm collection of ''Prunus armeniaca'' L. reveals three major diffusion routes for varieties coming from the species' center of origin|journal=Frontiers in Plant Science|language=English|volume=11|page=638|doi=10.3389/fpls.2020.00638|issn=1664-462X|pmc=7261834|pmid=32523597|doi-access=free|bibcode=2020FrPS...11..638B }}</ref> The domesticated apricot then diffused south to [[South Asia]],<ref name=":2" /> west to [[West Asia]] (including Armenia), [[Europe]] and [[North Africa]], and east to [[Japan]].<ref name=":1" />