Given its humble beginnings 9,000 years ago in Mexico, understanding how it came to be the most dominant plant in the world benefits from deciphering what attracted people to this crop to begin with.

The PhasibeAm team selected a specific MesoAmerican bean line for genomic sequencing (BAT93), given its relevance for the generation of varieties that are currently used commercially. The team ...

They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities as maps of the stars in the sky.