Evaluation of Primitive Cultivars from North Eastern Himalayan Region in Relation to Lineages

It is gratifying to note that North-eastern Himalayan region is not only having immense genetic variability, but it is clear that this diversity falls in 15 distinct groups, whose identity has been preserved over the past hundreds of years. An attempt has been made to assign the majority of Indian races into three of the six known lineages, these are Palomero Toluqueno, Confite Morocho and Kculli. Two of the Indian primitive races do not have closely related counterpart among any of the 305 races of Western Hemisphere. Furthermore, recently, female figures holding proudly maize like ears were discovered in a Hindu temple constructed in 1268—a pre-Columbian period.