Sex Distribution of Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia Papyrifera) in the Pacific
RESEARCH ARTICLE Sex Distribution of Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in the Pacific Johany Peñailillo1, Gabriela Olivares1, Ximena Moncada2, Claudia Payacán1, Chi-Shan Chang3, Kuo-Fang Chung4, Peter J. Matthews5, Andrea Seelenfreund6, Daniela Seelenfreund1* 1 Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile, 3 National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung 95060, Taiwan, 4 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, 5 National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 6 Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago, Chile a11111 * dseelen@ciq.uchile.cl; daniela.seelenfreund@gmail.com Abstract Background OPEN ACCESS Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Hér. ex Vent) is a dioecious tree native to Citation: Peñailillo J, Olivares G, Moncada X, East Asia and mainland Southeast-Asia, introduced prehistorically to Polynesia as a source Payacán C, Chang C-S, Chung K-F, et al. (2016) Sex of bark fiber by Austronesian-speaking voyagers. In Oceania, trees are coppiced and har- Broussonetia Distribution of Paper Mulberry ( vested for production of bark-cloth, so flowering is generally unknown. A survey of botanical papyrifera) in the Pacific. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161148 records of paper mulberry revealed a distributional disjunction: the tree is apparently absent in Borneo and the Philippines. A subsequent study of chloroplast haplotypes linked paper Editor: Kenneth M Olsen, Washington University, UNITED STATES mulberry of Remote Oceania directly to a population in southern Taiwan, distinct from known populations in mainland Southeast-Asia.
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