ABSTRACT
It has been suggested that guar is not an indigenous crop of the Indian subcontinent. The exact history of transdomestication of the guar crop into the Indian subcontinent is also uncertain. As suggested by Hymowitz,1 the guar crop probably evolved from its wild predecessor in the Middle East, from where it was brought into India as fodder by the Arab horse-traders in their merchant ships. Even this suggestion has now found some contradictions.
