page_title: Center of origin
section_title: Vavilov centers
hierarchical_section_title: Center of origin / Vavilov centers
caption_attribution_description: English: Vavilov center of origin Русский: Центры происхождения культурных растений (по Н. И. Вавилову)
context_page_description: A centre of origin is a geographical area where a group of organisms, either domesticated or wild, first developed its distinctive properties. They are also considered centers of diversity. Centers of origin were first identified in 1924 by Nikolai Vavilov.
context_section_description: A Vavilov Centre (of Diversity) is a region of the world first indicated by Nikolai Vavilov to be an original centre for the domestication of plants. For crop plants, Nikolai Vavilov identified differing numbers of centers: three in 1924, five in 1926, six in 1929, seven in 1931, eight in 1935 and reduced to seven again in 1940. 
  Vavilov argued that plants were not domesticated somewhere in the world at random, but that there were regions where domestication started. The centre of origin is also considered the center of diversity.
  Vavilov centres are regions where a high diversity of crop wild relatives can be found, representing the natural relatives of domesticated crop plants. Later in 1935 Vavilov divided the centers into 12, giving the following list:
  Chinese centre
  Indian centre
  Indo-Malayan centre
  Central Asiatic centre
  Persian centre
  Mediterranean centre
  Abyssinian centre
  South American centre
  Central American centre
  Chilean centre
  Brazilian-Paraguayan centre
  North American centre
  World centres of origin of cultivated plants
caption: Vavilov centres of origin: (1) Mexico-Guatemala, (2) Peru-Ecuador-Bolivia, (2A) Southern Chile, (2B) Paraguay-Southern Brazil, (3) Mediterranean, (4) Middle East, (5) Ethiopia, (6) Central Asia, (7) Indo-Burma, (7A) Siam-Malaya-Java, (8) China and Korea.[2]
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