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Domestication has helped to understand evolution. We argue that, vice versa, novel insights
into evolutionary principles could provide deeper insights into domestication. Molecular …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

Domestication is a co-evolutionary process that occurs when wild plants are brought into
cultivation by humans, leading to origin of new species and/or differentiated populations that …

Understanding evolutionary adaptation of crop plants requires understanding the ecology of
their wild ancestors1 and the selective pressures that cultivators exerted when they began …

Highlights•The new breeding strategy, de novo domestication, has emerged and been
demonstrated by pioneer work.•New agricultural challenges drive the shift of breeding …

Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

In the interest of diversifying the global food system, improving human nutrition, and making
agriculture more sustainable, there have been many proposals to domesticate wild plants or …

There is intense interest in using genome editing technologies to domesticate wild plants, or
accelerate the improvement of weakly domesticated crops, in de novo domestication. Here …