Domestication of fruit and vegetables resulted in a huge diversity of shapes and sizes of the
produce. Selections that took place over thousands of years of alleles that increased fruit …

Wheat is an important contributor to global food security, and further improvements are
required to feed a growing human population. Functional genetics and genomics tools can …

Major advances in wheat production are needed to address global food insecurity under
future climate conditions, such as high temperatures. The grain yield of bread wheat …

Crop domestication provided the calories that fueled the rise of civilization,,. For many crop
species, domestication was accompanied by the evolution of weedy crop relatives, which …

In crop species, adaptation to different agroclimatic regions creates useful variation but also
leads to unwanted genetic correlations. Bouchet....... Adaptation of domesticated species to …

Background Vegetatively propagated crops are globally significant in terms of current
agricultural production, as well as for understanding the long-term history of early agriculture …

A number of plant features and traits, such as overall plant architecture, leaf structure and
morphological features, vascular architecture and flowering time are important determinants …

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is one of our youngest domesticates, originating
in early eighteenth-century Europe from spontaneous hybrids between wild allo-octoploid …

Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift
from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization …

Key message Safeguarding crop yields in a changing climate requires bioinformatics
advances in harnessing data from vast phenomics and genomics datasets to translate …