Domesticated food crops are derived from a phylogenetically diverse assemblage of wild
ancestors through artificial selection for different traits. Our understanding of domestication …

The candidate gene (CG) approach has been applied in plant genetics in the past decade
for the characterisation and cloning of Mendelian and quantitative trait loci (QTLs). It …

I. INTRODUCTION II. THE DOMESTICATION PROCESS III. CENTERS OF AGRICULTURAL
ORIGINS IV. TIME FRAME OF DOMESTICATION V. THE DOMESTICATION SYNDROME VI …

Concerns about the genetic erosion of crop genetic resources (CGR) were first articulated by
scientists in the mid‐20th century and have since become an important part of national …

Relationships among 88 accessions representing 45 Citrus species, three man-made
hybrids, and six related genera were examined for restriction fragment length …

It is a distressing truism that the human race during the last millennium has caused the
exponential loss of plant genetic diversity throughout the world. This has had direct and …

This book emerged from a series of lectures on crop evolution at the Faculty of Agriculture of
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While many textbooks are available on general …

Genetic variation at five microsatellite loci was used to investigate the evolutionary and
geographical origins of cassava (Manihot esculenta subsp. esculenta) and the population …

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was used to evaluate the genetic
diversity of elite commercial cotton varieties. Twenty two varieties belonging to Gossypium …

Twenty-nine Malus species, 12 M. domestica cultivars and representative outgroup taxa
were chosen for sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal …