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<journal-id>0187-7380</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista fitotecnia mexicana]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. fitotec. mex]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0187-7380</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Mexicana de Fitogenética A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0187-73802016000200107</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Biotecnología prehispánica en Mesoamérica]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Prehispanic biotechnology in Mesoamerica]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Larqué-Saavedra]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alfonso]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A. C.  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Mérida Yucatán]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>39</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>107</fpage>
<lpage>115</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0187-73802016000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0187-73802016000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0187-73802016000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Con base en la definición de biotecnología del Convenio de la Diversidad Biológica de 1992 y la Ley Mexicana sobre Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente de 2013, que señala que es "toda aplicación tecnológica que utilice sistemas biológicos y organismos vivos así como sus derivados para la creación o modificación de productos y procesos para usos específicos", se enuncian siete tecnologías que desarrollaron y utilizaban los integrantes de las culturas mesoamericanas, previo a la llegada de los conquistadores españoles: La 'nixtamalización', los pigmentos, los polímeros, la fermentación, la papaína, el encurtido y secado del tabaco y la curtiduría de pieles. Las tecnologías que aquí se presentan podrían integrar un capítulo sobre biotecnología prehispánica que hasta ahora no se ha planteado como tal.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Taking into account the definition of biotechnology as "any technological application using biological systems or their derivatives for the creation or modification of products or processes for specific uses" ratified in the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992 (United Nations, 1992) and in the Mexican law of ecological equilibrium and environmental protection of 2013, seven technologies that were developed and used by Mesoamerican civilizations prior to the arrival of the Spanish are presented. The following technologies are selected to open this chapter of prehispanic biotechnology. The technology to obtain and manage elastic polymers, procurement and use of pigments or dyes, the fermentation process, the 'nixtamalization' of maize, the empirical use of papain, the tanning of animal hides and the curing and subsequent aging of tobacco leaves prior to being smoked.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Mesoamérica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[polímeros]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[pigmentos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[nixtamalización]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[fermentación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[curtiduría]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[papaína]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[tabaco]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mesoamerica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[polymers]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[pigments]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[nixtamalization]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[fermentation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[tanning]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[papain]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[tobbaco]]></kwd>
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